Posts Tagged: inspiration

Inspire — No Comments
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May 11

Where to Stand?

The model of teaching is not necessarily in front of the youngster, but alongside or behind them, to a far greater extent than in the industrial model – and therefore we ought to be trying to help teachers think through those changes, because they themselves can be accelerators of children’s development. Sir Tim Brighouse, UK

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The post is entirely inspired by Merlin John Online. For me, his site is inspiring and I urge you to subscribe. Further investigation uncovered information about the speakers here a download of the debate agenda here and a Ustream link of the second half, until April 2012 apparently, but its currently still available….. here. Save yourself 12 minutes and skip straight to Richard DeLorenzo, founder of RISC.

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Digital Learning — No Comments
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Dec 10

Honesty

A “No” uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a “Yes” merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. Gandhi

As time is perhaps my most valuable commodity, a few less ‘yes’ replies ‘merely uttered to please’ will enable me to focus my attention. I am pleased to say I don’t think I have respond positively just to avoid trouble.

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Digital Learning — No Comments
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Dec 10

Carl Sagan

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan

I felt this was a very suitable, educational quote to mark the anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. I didn’t know a lot about Carl Sagan when I first heard Pale Blur Dot, but the video certainly struck a cord.

 

More recently, it was covered of Qwiki, another impressive mash-up tool still in alpha, but worthy of your review IMHO. Compared to the Carl Sagan output from new favourite resource creation tool, Montage, Qwiki goes in at half time, one-nil ahead. Qwiki seems more comfortable with historical references / individual / items.

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#Success / Teaching — No Comments
12
Dec 10

Hook ‘em and Cook ‘em

Wes Fryer was one of the first education bloggers I stumble upon and later listened too. He still has his finger very much on the educational / technological pulse and is a treasure trove of all things teachnology.

In a recent post he highlighted the inspirational work of Kevin Honeycutt, I duly followed the links and watched / listened as he demonstrated with relative ease the potential a range of  ‘cheap’ iPhone apps

  1. PocketGuitar
  2. Harmonica
  3. iShred
  4. Ocarina
  5. Drum Meister Grand

Fun, cool learning stuff – but it was one of his ‘catch-phrases’ that stood out for me.

It hooks her, but it cant cook her.

We do have to do to hook ‘em before we can cook ‘em Kevin, your absolutely right.

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Curriculum / Digital Learning / Leadership — No Comments
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Aug 10

Calvin and Hobbes

Whilst teaching at Taunton’s College I would often use the wisdom of Calvin and Hobbes to explain concepts and contemporary issues. What is Sport? What is Play?  Deviance (cheating, misuse drugs, gamesmanship) Why are rules necessary? Plus, I would use the cartoon strips to engage students, as starters, plenaries and to set homework (as it was once called) guidelines.  These two characters became very popular with students and certainly brightened up the lessons and worksheets.

There image my delight when I read that a software engineer had created a fantastic search engine for the classic comic strip Calvin and Hobbes. Sadly we were also warned to ‘Head over there fast, because it may not be be around long.’

Thinking about leadership, here’s one Calvin lesson. You can not command that colleagues follow you.

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