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 [...]
Two things led to this next event. The first is the work that Mr H has been doing with his maths Unprojects. The second was a growing awareness that for all my talk of moving learning on to real enquiry based studies that made the best use of ICT, I still wasn’t walking the walk. [...]
I’ve been meaning to blog about this pretty much since I did it, but other things got in the way. As you’ll already know if you read Damian’s blog, back in February I Skyped in to his Brit Hons class for an hour to talk about Wales and the Welsh language. For me it was [...]
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 – 11:57 pm
As I mentioned on Twitter yesterday, next Thursday I have to give a presentation to a group of Headteachers from mid Wales on skills based learning, and in particular the work we’ve been doing with SMART. So far, so normal, but I was also asked to provide a ‘pen portrait’ to go in the course [...]
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, [...]
April 18, 2008 – 12:05 am
Back here I pondered a possible future for a new ICT course at KS4 which attracted some interesting comments. I recently though had a thought about KS3 which I’d like to share. There seems little argument to the idea that three years of mocked exercises intended to provide pupils with proficiency in using Microsoft Office [...]
April 17, 2008 – 11:34 pm
The blogging hiatus continued for longer than expected, partly because I’ve been really busy, but also because I really didn’t have the urge to say anything. I nearly waded in on a couple of debates that raged across the blogs I read, but in the end I was quite happy not to. That seems to [...]
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