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Note to Teacher

Posted in education, management, tagged , , , on September 8, 2009 | 5 Comments »

I was looking through an old notebook* the other day when I came across a couple of quotations which had slipped out of the ageing hard drive on top of my shoulders, but made the same impact when I read them again as they had when I first heard them straight from the horses’ mouths as it [...]

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Edinburgh International Book Festival

Posted in Scotland, culture, digital literacy, education, language, literacy, literature, tagged , , , , , , , , on August 25, 2009 | 14 Comments »

Had a really enjoyable day yesterday at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, where I was taking part in a panel discussion, and making a presentation on Technology and Literacy. My co-presenters were Judy Robertson, a computer scientist at Heriot-Watt University, and Lili Wilkinson, an Australian cyber-journalist (no, I had never heard of it either) and the [...]

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Make Your Lesson Go With A Bang

Posted in education, humour, tagged , , , , , on May 20, 2009 | 6 Comments »

A few year ago when I was heading up our school’s learning and teaching policy group, we were trying to capture the basic requirements for effective learning and teaching. Checklists were flavour of the month so naturally our policy was full of checklists. However, I wondered whether an alternative checklist might be more effective in [...]

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Creating Confident Individuals

Posted in education, tagged , , , , , , on April 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Thanks to Laurie O’Donnel for reminding me in his recent blogpost of what a significant text Carol Dweck’s Mindset is, especially in the context of the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence, and in particular the aim to develop confident individuals. To many people, and perhaps particularly to Scots, “confident individuals” has connotations of arrogance or [...]

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Happy Birthday Blog

Posted in blogging, education, literacy, tagged , , , , , , , on April 10, 2009 | 6 Comments »

Just realised that today marks the anniversary of my first blog post, and I was reflecting on the changes it has made to my life in that time. The original motivation for starting the blog was to take myself through the process of setting it up and go through the various stages of development, so that [...]

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The Dog Ate My Homework

Posted in culture, education, tagged , , , , , , , on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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Exam Stress

Posted in education, tagged , , on May 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I had a phone call at the end of last week inviting me on to this Tuesday’s Fred MacAulay show on Radio Scotland.  Imagine my disappointment to learn that it was not because word had got out about the success of my Chic Murray impersonation but to talk about exam stress and how to avoid it. It’s [...]

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Hi, 21st Century

Posted in blogging, tagged , , on April 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Hi, so this is the 21st Century. After more years than I care to think about being involved in learning and teaching, I arrive blinking into this exciting but slightly scary new world. A few years late but never mind. Thanks to Ewan for just throwing me in at the deep end. I’d like to [...]

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