The Death of Homework
Does homework really benefit students? Does it genuinely help them gain and consolidate knowledge? Are there other less obvious benefits? Or is it an outmoded practice that is merely to ‘tick a box’...
View ArticleForging Links
Many moons ago (May 2012), I wrote about Project Based Learning and the idea of working together. I think this is important to make genuine progress – this idea of collaboration and open-mindedness to...
View ArticleHead in the clouds or on cloud nine?
For those of you following TED 2013, you probably already know that the $1 million award has been given to Sugata Mitra to develop his groundbreaking plans in education. This interests me greatly as I...
View ArticlePlanning for the future
Question: What do these jobs have in common? Social media manager, Wind farm engineer, Zumba teacher, Gamification consultant and App designer? Answer: None of these jobs existed 20, maybe even 10...
View ArticleInto the Valley
As regular readers will know I am a big fan of Sir Ken Robinson and his views on education. I share his opinion that much of what happens harks back the Victorian era, the need to produce a large-scale...
View ArticleDream Big Dreams
It takes courage to travel to another country where you don’t know anybody, you don’t speak the language and the culture is completely different to your own. You stay in a home you have never been in...
View ArticleLearning to learn
There are so many ways to learn and some many different opinions on which way is best. By clicking on the image below you can see a map that charts the learning theories in 2013. Nobody uses all of...
View ArticleStanding on the shoulders of giants
I read an interesting article comparing the stuffy, conservative, Gen X approach to education compared to the innovative, risk-taking, Gen Y outlook on the same subject. The talk is of a revolution....
View ArticleEight ways to think
The Beatles. Think of some questions about The Beatles. You may or may not create some great questions, but the chances are if you give this task to a group, that the questions will be relatively...
View ArticleAll those years weren’t wasted
People who play video games have better computational skills, better cognitive skills and are more attractive to the opposite sex (OK two out of three isn’t bad). In the new frontiers of gamification,...
View Article
More Pages to Explore .....