Little twitterings about teaching. Splogs. Why Michael Gove's invocation of Gramsci misses the point of his work. For someone like me, who left a fairly "bog standard" comprehensive school at 16 with no qualifications and, as far as I can remember, having never read a book – let alone all the classics that the education secretary said we should return to in his speech to the Social Market Foundation yesterday – Michael Gove's choice of the Italian revolutionary Marxist Antonio Gramsci as an intellectual buttress for his views on contemporary education in Britain seems both fascinating and instructive.
Rhizomatic Education : Community as Curriculum. Below is my paper as it appears in Innovate – Journal of Online Education.
Many, many thanks to the fine folks there for all their help. Note: this journal has since gone ‘out of print’. the originals are still available at archive.org but i have adjusted the links here so that they continue to work. The truths of which the masses now approve are the very truths that the fighters at the outposts held to in the days of our grandfathers.
We fighters at the outposts nowadays no longer approve of them; and I do not believe there is any other well-ascertained truth except this, that no community can live a healthy life if it is nourished only on such old marrowless truths. Watch Paperman, A CGI Short from Disney that Looks and Feels Like Classic Handmade Animation. The pen is mightier than the sword Part 1. Handwriting is not dead.
Despite reports to the contrary, despite a plethora of technologies for creating text, nothing yet matches the speed and immediacy of a quick note jotted down with a mark-making implement on a scrap of paper. It’s probably not a stretch to suggest that a handwritten letter or card remains one of the most intimate means of non-verbal communication of thoughts, ideas and feelings. It is certainly true that the majority of students hand write the bulk of their work, at least at primary level.
This will likely remain the case for the foreseeable future. With this in mind, it is frustrating to witness students struggle to master basic ‘stylus skills’ (a non-gendered alternative to ‘penmanship’). As with many things that we could do better in schools, a focus on improving handwriting sits comfortably with the concept of marginal gains, beyond the opportunity to clinch a couple of extra test points. 535: Made for students. By students.
Beginning of Visible Learning Beginning of Visible Learning On August 2 1999, John Hattie gave his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Education at the University of Auckland.
You are what you eat. Have you ever been on a diet? If so, how on earth did you chose which one to follow? There are the crash diets (or fad diets) - The Beverley Hills diet and Cabbage soup diet are 2 examples. Goldilocks Feedback. This blog is not about Assessment for Learning. Is retreat the only option? - news. Comment:5 average rating | Comments (8)Last Updated:31 January, 2013Section:news Arguments against the government’s planned GCSE replacements are coming from all quarters.
Will Michael Gove continue to pursue his goals regardless or will he be forced to reconsider? , asks William Stewart Michael Gove appears to have done that rare thing in politics - he’s come up with a policy that almost no one supports. Teacher union opposition might be seen as par for the course for an education secretary wanting to shake things up; it might even be viewed as a political necessity for one wishing to keep the right-wing press on side.
But classroom “militants” are not the only ones up in arms about Gove’s plan to introduce English Baccalaureate Certificates (EBCs) in core subjects as a replacement for GCSEs.
Getting the scale right: attitudes before systems. After millennia of battle the surviving G’Gugvuntt and Vl’hurg realised what had actually happened, and joined forces to attack the Milky Way in retaliation.
They crossed vast reaches of space in a journey lasting thousands of years before reaching their target where they attacked the first planet they encountered, Earth. Due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was swallowed by a small dog. Douglas Adam’s Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy I love this Hitch-hiker’s Guide story. Old Andrew. Tom Bennett. Keven Bartle. English. John Tomsett. The Learning Arc: It takes the time it takes. The Learning Arc: Timed in minutes or hours or weeks … it all depends.
How to make RSA Animate style videos with your class… Here is a post on how to make RSA style videos with half the work and time, and with a lot less tech experience needed.
And another post on RSA-lite style videos. If you like the idea in this post, then you might also enjoy my other post 24 Assessments that Don’t Suck. Nothing fancy in this post, just the nuts and bolts of how to make an RSA Animate style video with your class! This is also one of those posts that is so long that there is simply not enough time in my life to go back and edit and revise it…so you get what you get and please don’t get upset. What is an RSA Animate style video?
Bloody, bold and resolute. Learning Spy.