This is not the best video you will ever see. If you’re a big fan of Matt Damon you will hardly see him at all as he stands on a stage seemingly miles away from you. But put up with the shaky camera work and just listen to what he had to say at the [...]
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Yes I know that education is a serious business. Here we are in the summer break and I am reading Tweets about colleagues going to conferences here there and everywhere. They are discussing the somber business of educating our children and indeed all our futures. Now I am not getting at the subject matter of [...]
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I recently read a really good article called “A Tale of Two Countries” . The two countries were actually the same geographical space but were about people who lived completely different lives and had completely different outlooks. The actual country is the U.S.A. and the writer, Jon Bischke, highlighted the boom that has taken place in [...]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sF_KdgMcsc&feature=player_embedded This video really was impressive. Here was a public (state) school that had been having some sort of exodus of children caused by under-achievement by its pupils. So what did they do? Did they take the path of rote learning and test preparation? No…they introduced a creative, bi-lingual (Spanish/ English), problem solving curriculum which included [...]
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Yesterday I tried to access Google Documents on my work computer and found that it was banned! I have, in the past tried to use Dropbox and found that this was banned also. My question is an obvious one why? A second thought arising from this is “who makes the decisions about what is good [...]
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A few weeks ago I received a link to an excellent infographic called ”Google Tools To Support Bloom’s revised Taxonomy” by Kathy Schrock. This is an excellent way of getting you to think how the tools created by Google fit into the revised taxonomy with Google Search and G Mail coming into the first order of [...]
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Project Based Learning (PBL) is what education is all about. I say “education” in its most literal sense. I looked up the word online and found the derivation of the word comes from Latin: “educare” which means “to bring up”, from e- “out” and ducere ”to lead; to bring forward“. This reminded me of a former headteacher of [...]
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It’s the same old story… YouTube is blocked and so are so many other potentially powerful learning sites. Why? Because we do not trust the user to actually use the sites responsibly. Someone, somewhere has made a decision about our potential behaviour. I can come along and say.. look I am a responsible person, I [...]
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I have just read a really interesting post from a Blog that I follow “Broken Airplane” called “The Watchman’s Rattle: Thinking Our Way Out of Extinction” This post made me think of the many challenges that we face in order to survive as a species on this planet. There is the threat of climate change, [...]
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