At the back end of January 2011 I was reading the research findings by Jeffrey D. Karpicke, Assistant Professor of Psychological Sciences at Purdue. In a nutshell, Karpicke’s research shows that practising retrieval is an even more effective strategy than …
Grammar is my teaching and professional learning focus this term. On my iPhone I receive GG or Grammar Girl’s quick and dirty tips podcast and my feed reader delivers Daily Grammar. I am working through the back catalogue on both these feeds, …
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon. – Edward Morgan Forster [qr_code_display]
The most recent example of where my experience, specialist knowledge and skills have been combined with a mature awareness of the process of strategic change, is the research, collaboration and design of a ‘Learning Circle’ for Department improvement. I have …
Learning is therefore both easier (quick to find) and harder (having to judge what’s trustworthy and reliable), and that’s where I think students will always need teachers. Our role will be to show to gain knowledge, how to apply it, …
This afternoon I had a very positive conversation with Lilian Soon from textwall.co.uk. In a nutshell textwall.co.uk it’s a response system where responders text, email, webpost their responses. Think Twitterfall for texting. Lilian gave me access to a sandbox account …
I am not going to write a SOLO taxonomy thinking post, I do not know it well enough, I haven’t I explored it far enough nor taught with it in mind. But I will. However the hexagonal tessalating idea, now …
I could not hold back. I just let it all out… Tom Whitby offers educators really great discussion. This afternoon I got caught up in ‘Can technology change teacher practice. When it comes to technology enhanced learning, I love the gadgets but I …
