Posts Tagged ‘teaching and learning’
Anti-Education Technology- Does it exist ?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: March 7, 2011
I came across an interesting article in a LinkedIn group I’m a member of today. Its all about the impact of the iPad and its uses, or not, in education. Now I have to admit, I’m a confirmed fan of both my iPad and my iPhone. As friends and colleagues as well as regular readers [...]
Reports of the death of blogging have been greatly exagerated !
Posted by: mimanifesto on: February 24, 2011
- In: Literacy | networking | PLN | sustainability
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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 [...]
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
- 2 Comments
TESS letter
Posted by: mimanifesto on: April 17, 2010
- In: capacity-building | change | future of education | GLOW | ICT | LTS | teaching and learning
- 1 Comment
TESS published a letter from me last week. It’s really a summary of the ‘Emperors new clothes’ blog post about the hype and blindly optimistic rhetoric which is currently surrounding GLOW, and the rather sniffy and chilly attitude which appears to descend upon anyone who dares to criticize any aspect of the GLOW project at the moment. [...]
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 [...]
Why top-down initiatives in education sometimes fail…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: July 25, 2009
- In: change | future of education | Leadership | Research
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An interesting letter in a recent edition of the Herald (Tuesday 23rd June) provides a much more objective view of the recent graduation of Scotland’s first teachers qualified to teach Mandarin, and the Confucius classroom ‘hub’ schools set up to further the teaching of Mandarin. In the letter, Prof. Stuart Picken argues that if Scotland [...]
We live in interesting times…TESS article – January 09
Posted by: mimanifesto on: January 24, 2009
- In: AiFL | change | Finland | Leadership | teaching and learning
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Here is the unedited version of the TESS article from Friday January 23rd ’09 ( http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6007643) We live in interesting times. The pace of change is faster than ever. We’ve moved from a 20th century geared towards mass-production to satisfy consumerism into a 21st century in which innovation and creativity will be the watch-words. And [...]
What does it actually do?
Posted by: mimanifesto on: September 13, 2008
I’m in the middle of assignment-writing for a management and leadership PgDip programme at the moment and, just as I advise my own students to do, I’m taking plenty of ‘reward’ breaks as I work. One of them became more of a ‘Busgirl’s teabreak’ as I switched on the telly and found an episode [...]
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
- 13 Comments
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 [...]
Elaborative rehersal for high performance learning
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 17, 2008
- In: GLOW | Literacy | teaching and learning
- 3 Comments
I was going to write a post summarising my study visit to Finland last week (more to come on that in a few days time) but today, I attended a Psychology seminar at Stirling University. It gave me a rare chance to really focus on some of the actual material that I teach for [...]
When a lesson goes wrong…
Posted by: mimanifesto on: May 4, 2008
- In: GLOW | ICT | Leadership | Literacy
- 4 Comments
I did a lesson with my S3 Biology class on Thursday which didn’t go to plan. So as is usual for me, I sat down later (well, this morning actually) to try and put my thoughts about this in some kind of order. And when I started to do this the realisation that it actually [...]
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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