Posts Tagged ‘Learning communities’
Emotional education and society..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 1, 2011
Judging by what we read in the papers at the moment, Scotland is not a great place to be growing up in at the moment. Drinking, drugs, and dangerous sexual activity are endemic in our society. Knife and gun crime is the norm amongst many children who roam the streets in feral gangs without a [...]
Inter professional dialogue as CPD
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 14, 2011
It sometimes strikes me, as I speak and network with other education professionals that we are rather insular in our approaches. Of course, many folk I’ve worked with went from school, to university, and straight into teaching as their chosen career, and have been teachers and educationalists ever since. However, certainly over the past few [...]
Big lottery – Big plans
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 9, 2008
- In: games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Quality assurance | teaching and learning
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..just had word that my recent big lottery fund bid has been successful – it means I can now go ahead and buy 10 mini notebooks and 10 Nintendo DS consoles with brain-training software for some out-of-hours school projects we want to run during this session using on-line science based games and DS maths and [...]
Reflections on a busy year
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 28, 2008
- In: AiFL | Finland | games-based learning | Gaming | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | Uncategorized | VLE
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It’s certainly been an eventful year for me. Looking forward to a beach in Turkey next week, I got a big dose of the reflection city blues and have been thinking all day about how best to sum up 2007-8 in a single post. I suppose I started this academic year back last August [...]
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