Cluetrain for Schools
There’s lots of chat about schools and how they need to adapt for the 21st Century. Some of it is good, some of it useful, but a lot seems to be edging towards something that was said almost 14 years ago, the Cluetrain Manifesto Cluetrain.com went live in April, 1999. It was written by four […]
Public Enemy, Bassey, Delirium and Good Copying
I love this! I came across it trying to put together some example for my Year 6s on copying and when it was and wasn’t wrong. By chance one of my students Rudi mentioned the song Harder Than You Think by Public Enemy. I did some quick YouTubing and it turns out that Chuck D […]
The Universal Panacea
I’ve just stumbled across #blogsync. [For those who like me didn’t know about it, it’s a neat way to get bloggers discussing a monthly same topic] The topic this month is this: “The Universal Panacea? The number one shift in UK education I wish to see in my lifetime” There have been a number of […]
Notes from Roland Barth
Roland Barth’s “Improving Schools From Within” is comforting and inspiring in equal measure. Well worth a read. My notes: Communities of Learners School is not a place for important people who do not need to learn and unimportant people who do. Instead, school is a place where students discover and andults rediscover,...
Ron Berger
Ron Berger’s book “An Ethic of Excellence” is, well, excellent. Am really looking forward to trying out the whole critique, redraft, improve idea – and it’s certainly made me realise I have to be more proactive about finding model bits of work and archiving them. Anyway, my dogears: Archiving “One of...
Problem-finding in education
Based on the following have just pre-ordered Dan Pink’s To Sell Is Human to my list of books to read. “the business world has a lot to learn from educators: what motivates people, how to inspire people to perform well. But educators can also take a lesson from the commercial world: namely, teaching the complicated […]
Ron Berger on Critique #ukedchat
This is brilliant. Just showed it to some Year 6 students and they’re all now far happier redoing their work. One child has just said to another one who was a bit fed up redrafting “just remember the butterfly” Ron Berger on the Power of Critique from Susanne Shavelson on Vimeo.
Bertrand Russell’s 10 Teaching Commandments
I like these a lot (thanks Maria). They come from a 1951 article in the New York Times, titled “The Best Answer to Fanaticism: Liberalism”, which is well worth a read. Perhaps the essence of the Liberal outlook could be summed up in a new decalogue, not intended to replace the old one but only […]
Genius quote
“Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience” George-Louis Leclerc de Buffon
How to write good
via Antonia