I have always had bad spelling. I could always remember enough of my spellings in spelling tests at school to average around 7/10, but they’ve often not transfered to my long term memory. The only ‘difficult’ word I can always spell correctly is ‘necessary’ because my brilliant GCSE English teacher had posters with mnemonics on them [...]
Like many others I’ve had a problem with the idea of digital natives and digital immigrants, first posed by Mark Prensky . However, I am increasingly of the opinion there there is a division here we need to be aware of. Unlike Prensky, I don’t think it’s as simple as saying that because someone has [...]
For a while now I’ve been interested in ways to get the message about the use of educational technology as a tool to transform learning out there to other teachers. Or more precisely, I’ve been interested in the puzzle of why more of them aren’t leaping in and doing it. Sure, there are those with [...]
When I first read about it, the 31day Comment Challenge was one of those things I skipped over. I think if it were running over the summer I’d be more likely to get involved, but at this time of year I don’t have the time to commit to changing my online behaviour in a fairly [...]
 There’s a saying in the UK that it’s not what you know that gets you places, it’s who you know. This was a reflection of the fact that in a Britain divided by class lines as it certainly was until the 1950′s 1 the people who were successful were (by and large) the product of [...]
April 29, 2008 – 11:13 pm
Why is it that all our pupils do the same courses at the same time, with people who happen to have been born between the same two Septembers as them? Why is it that school starts and finishes at the same time for everyone? Why is it that lessons last an hour, and then we [...]
Back in June of last year I reflected on the idea that there must be a better way of reporting student progress to parents than the current system of annual reports and parents evenings, in which parents from pupils in one year group are encouraged to make 5 minute appointments with their son/daughters teachers to [...]
April 18, 2008 – 11:50 pm
We had the first meeting of our schools new strategic ICT group earlier today, which was very positive and seems to be heading in the right direction with a good mix of idealism and realism on board. Of course, one hour is never enough, and going through the notes from the meetings (on Google Docs, [...]
I’m coming to the end of a period of self-imposed isolation from my online community. This period was initially prompted by the pressing need to finish a series of online resources that I’d been employed to create, but not made much headway on. But when I emerged from the other side, I found my perspective [...]
January 13, 2008 – 1:29 am
The Good The best innovations were seemingly from the marketing people, from the company that were giving out free t-shirts (you had to wear them round the stall to be entered into the prize draw) to the BBC branded oranges The best presentations were from pupils and actual teachers. Credit to Steven Heppell for the [...]
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