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Reports of the death of blogging have been greatly exagerated !

Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 24, 2011

So teens are going off blogging and turning increasingly to social networking sites such as Twitter instead.  So says a recent article in the New York Times I came across, courtesy of the Smart Brief on EdTech.  Some interesting comment, particularly about the reasons for this apparent switch. One of these was the time taken [...]

The greatest barrier to learning is…

Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 23, 2008

….the talking teacher. I’ve heard this before, but it was brought sharply back into focus for me recently by some of my S4 students. They were working in small groups, having been told they were going to face the dreaded end-of topic test (I really hate these !) I couldn’t bring myself to let them sit [...]

Who’s afraid of the digital native ?

Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 1, 2008

I came across this video earlier today and just had to laugh – it reminded me so much of my grandson. The way he’s going, he will soon be teaching me how to do stuff on my pc ! Great ! But seriously, these are the kids we teach at the moment and will teach [...]


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