6. Pedagoo Friday - Pedagoo.org was an idea initiated by a few Scottish teachers but mainly the inspirational Fearghal Kelly who is the driving force. Pedagoo is ‘an attempt by a loose collection of educators in Scotland to move beyond the rhetoric and inevitable negativity that surrounds most new initiatives in education’. I came up with the idea… [Read more…]
December 29, 2011
‘Faith is believing when common sense tells you not to.’ Miracle on 34th Street. This is part one of my final Blog post of 2011. Exactly a year ago I had written my first one. It lay untouched for days, a result of my procrastination and general weak-willed assumption that it was rotten. However, I… [Read more…]
December 15, 2011
My classroom has been set out in groups for years now. I occasionally resort to rows for assessment purposes, perhaps the odd poorly behaved class, but, more or less, it remains the same. As a reaction to my own school experience, I always wanted to avoid that monotony some students must experience at times, when… [Read more…]
December 6, 2011
By the end of this week I will have owned an iPad 2 for six months. It was a bit of a jump for me. Never had an iPhone, always been a Microsoft man; but I took the plunge, sold on the sleek design and potential for real classroom development and change in my practice. A… [Read more…]
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December 31, 2011
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