I have spoken before about the opposition to web 2.0 that I have encountered amongst teachers that I deal with in my position as a mathematics consultant. Today I was delighted to receive an e-mail from my line manager in which he asked me to look at an Elluminate video that had been created by [...]
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When I was growing up I used to hear some brilliant comedy sketches on the radio. One of my favourite ones was by Bob Newhart and concerned an imaginary telephone call from Sir Walter Rayleigh to a Government official in L0mdon.Now I know that the telephone hadn’t been invented yet.. but we were willing to [...]
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This is a beautiful and intensely moving film. The story of Eva Kuper a tiny little Polish Jewish girl who was rescued at almost the last second from certain death from a train that was headed to Treblinka Concentration Camp. The story then tells of the wonderful nun who looked after her for three years [...]
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The other day I was looking through an old memory stick that I have. I discovered a very short video that I had made about five years ago of my two dogs Toby and Skye (which can be seen above). Now,as can be clearly seen, I am not now nor will ever be a serious [...]
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The video above is one of the all=time classic “April Fool” jokes. It was made by the B.B.C. and had Richard Dimbleby, a highly respected journalist as its narrator. From the very beginning it smacks of authenticity. There were in fact millions of people, watching the (then) very popular T.V. current affairs programme “Panorama“ (including [...]
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Today the Government here in the U.K. published its White Paper “The Importance of Teaching”. Now I am not going to get into the debate on the rights and wrong of the Paper (I have written about my views in earlier blog posts). No, I am going to bemoan the fact that in any educational [...]
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I was reading Mark Moran’s excellent article about “The Bixby Letter” in the Finding Dulcinea blog. It made me think about the importance of not taking so-called “facts” for granted and the way that education is often seen as a matter of irrefutable fact being spoon fed to children who need to know them. Now there [...]
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As a mathematics consultant I often get to work with children who are deemed to be “having learning problems” or who are “making slow progress” in the subject. The last two days I have seen such children at a local secondary school (Year 7′s, Grade 6) and today with Year 6′s (Grade 5) at a [...]
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As a follower of Finding Dulcinea I was recently led, via a Tweet from my Facebook friend Mark Moran (their CEO) to an old video from PBS which was conducted by Bill Moyers. The person he interviewed was Isaac Asimov who I have read a few times (as have so many others). I had heard [...]
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I am an avid follower of the #edchat discussion on Twitter every Tuesday (5 p.m. G.M.T. noon E.S.T.). Today I came back from Day 1 of a two day Maths Consultants Meeting in Peterborough. It was a long drive (by British standards!) and I joined the second half of an interesting discussion about global communication. [...]
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