Posts Tagged ‘Research’
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 [...]
A Curriculum for Mediocrity ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 28, 2010
- In: AiFL | capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Inspection | LTS | Quality assurance | Research | sustainability
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The Emperor’s new clothes….
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 5, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Leadership | LTS | networking | PLN | Quality assurance | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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“Your Majesty,” the prime minister said, “we have a request for you. The people have found out about this extraordinary fabric and they are anxious to see you in your new suit.” The Emperor was doubtful showing himself naked to the people, but then he abandoned his fears. After all, no one would know about [...]
EVS, GLOW, and raising attainment.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: August 5, 2009
- In: change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I had a very productive meeting with a couple of colleagues today discussing the proposed Electronic Voting System (EVS) research project we’re planning to carry out (with the help of a couple of UG research students from the university) in school over the course of the next session. The design and methodology for this project [...]
Interactive voting systems and the how and why of multiple choice questioning…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 28, 2009
- In: AiFL | CPD | games-based learning | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers
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I’m using the Turning Point interactive voting system with a first year class at the moment. Were just trying it out and getting used to working with it, but I plan to do some classroom-based research during the next session. The plan is to use the voting systems with two first year classes (and with [...]
The AERS virtual research environment – valuable experience for GLOW?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 30, 2008
- In: capacity-building | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Research | sustainability | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I was looking through the latest AERS research commentary magazine last night (it’s not on line unfortunately). In this October edition, they have devoted almost the entire space to a discussion of the research around virtual environments (including a large amount of commentry on GLOW) in Scottish education. The front cover names this coverage ‘Glimmer’ implying that whilst [...]
A better week…EePc’s, Gaming and some older research revisited
Posted by: mimanifesto on: November 21, 2008
- In: games-based learning | GLOW | ICT | LTS | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning
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It’s been a better week in school, with light actually becoming visible at the end of a very long tunnel. More staff are coming to see me about getting their GLOW log-ins and arranging training. We are going to be starting GLOW lunchtime/twilight drop in clinics to support staff who want to move forward with [...]
Did the lights stay on? ICT/GLOW and sustainability
Posted by: mimanifesto on: October 17, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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…is going to be the working title of our longitudinal study tracking a secondary school Biology year group over their complete standard grade course, with one of the classes using GLOW to deliver regular embedded ICT content. This is a continuation of this year’s research and should address, amongst other things, the issue of sustainability of [...]
Research on ICT/GLOW – so far so good.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 19, 2008
- In: AiFL | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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I’ve just finished the first phase of my GCTS teacher-researcher programme study on embedding ICT into secondary subjects and now the stats have been checked by the experts, I can report some interesting results from this study. The intention was to use GLOW as a delivery vehicle for the regular planned use of ICT 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 [...]
GLOW- Future directions? just keep the faith..
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 14, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | GTCS | ICT | Leadership | Research | Teacher-researchers | teaching and learning | VLE
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This is a long post – you have been warned !! Having been using GLOW in some form or other for over a year now and for seven months in teaching and learning with my classes I felt that it was time to reflect a little on where we might be going with it, and [...]
GLOW and ACfE – qualitative evidence from situated learning
Posted by: mimanifesto on: June 6, 2008
- In: Finland | GLOW | ICT | teaching and learning
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I’ve spent much of the past few weeks examining the quantitative aspects of embedding ICT into secondary school subject curricula for a research study I’m running as a part of the GTCS teacher researcher programme. Specifically, I am trying to measure any rise in attainment from a particular group of pupils who are using GLOW [...]
Smartboards, Seafood and Soul-Searching.
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 9, 2008
Another very interesting and productive day yesterday here in Finland. I visited another school, this time a lower secondary. I spoke with a number of teachers and students, observed a maths class and looked in detail about how this school uses ICT to enhance teaching and learning. A much more measured approach here – evolving [...]
Change revisited
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 29, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Leadership
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I recently came across an award-winning blog post from Karl Fisch which poses the following question… ‘Is it okay to be a technologically illiterate teacher ?’ Fisch is clearly of the opinion that it is not. He goes on to make this rather bold statement.. “If a teacher today is not technologically literate – and [...]
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