The Motivational Factor
This is a fabulous video of a presentation by Dan Pink which I came across. Pink defines what really motivates us, autonomy, mastery, purpose, challenges and making a contribution. Now we just have to...
Category: Education
Innovative and Competitive Schooling is our Future
I came across this interesting video a while back, it’s Joel Klein, CEO of News Corps talking about the need for competition and innovation within our schools. He’s right, our schools are fashioned on...
U.K. takes a radical look at teacher training
Hot on the heels of my recent post from the U.K…Minister of Education (Michael Gove) is at it again. This time I reluctantly believe he’s on to a good idea. The changes Mr.Gove proposes may...
Education reforms appear lost in translation
I find it disturbingly ironic that Lesley Longstone who is the recently recruited head of the Education Ministry, was dragged into New Zealand from a similar position in the U.K. One would imagine, that...
Addressing Diversity in My Classroom
Teaching my Year 11 ICT class has it’s challenges and the one that I am currently trying to manage is how best I can accommodate the different abilities and learning styles. They’re just getting...
RSA Animate Changing education paradigms
I’m a real fan of Sir Ken Robinson and RSA Animate and here they’ve joined forces to present a fabulous video which discusses the shifts that are occurring within our education systems, a must see for...
Developing Digital Literacy
As a relative late comer to the teaching profession I was disillusioned to find in my student practice that some schools have so much emphasis on how to create Word, Excel and Power Point documents. There...
Moodle making
At last I have an opportunity to delve deeper into the back end of Moodle as I prepare for next year’s classes. I have largely experienced Moodle as a student and often found the...
When does educate become indoctrinate?
I find the attached clip from a recent BBC UK news item quite bemusing. If it’d been generated by any other group than “Demos” I probably wouldn’t have given it much consideration but the fact...
Google and your memory
This chart is courtesy of Online Colleges who are linked below. Their blogs are worth taking a look at and they come up with cool graphics like these from time to time. Basically this...
