I’ve got Leigh Blackall’s retrospective screencast paused at the half way mark and I’m mulling over a few of his points. I’ve also been at a meeting together of the partner schools in my own system’s Learning Technologies Project where we’ve been tossing around ways to ensure that what we’ve discovered in our documented journey [...]
Monthly Archive for March, 2010
This year’s class are an enthusiastic bunch of bloggers. A few have even made their own headers and avatars, drawing on the usual source for eleven and twelve year olds – popular culture. At this age where they are still trying on various identity cloaks as they work out who they are, the worlds of [...]
I’m thinking out loud here following a stream of consciousness triggered from Dean Groom’s post today. His theme was trust and how it evolves in an online network – my brain started throwing how that related to my own experiences and so I left a starting point in a comment: I find that trust builds [...]
Just thought I’d point to a few things that I’ve found and enjoyed of late. Went onto last.fm the other night to find out that what I thought was a free service is actually a limited trial. Saw a new station on there for the band Angels And Airwaves and had a quick listen before [...]
So today I heard John Hattie today going through his list of factors that make a difference (or don’t) for students in our schools. A few sacred cows get a little trampled on in this process but here’s what popped into my head as he (eloquently) spoke this morning. His research is based on thousands [...]
Here are my raw and at times possibly inaccurate notes from this morning’s presentation by Professor John Hattie. His meta-analysis of educational research in his book “Visible Learning” has provoked a lot of interest and some indignation from the education community. I will say that he is a very engaging speaker able to show off [...]
Creative Commons licence
Subscribe via Feedburner.
Recent Comments