I don’t think I’ve been prouder of receiving any tweet than the one that appeared yesterday from Mark Clarkson: This blog by @davestacey is making#digitalbadges harder to resist (although the scope of his vision still scares me!).http://is.gd/PY6rU9 No one’s ever been scared by the scope of my vision before! I quite like it… Anyway, I […]
ipadology, chickens, eggs and coloured plastic cups.
From time to time various tweets or blog posts of mine get caught up by a paper.li – a service which captures various internet activitiy for a particular user. Yesterday, myself, @johnmclear and Leighton Andrews got linked together by the #addcym paper, which inspired this tweet from the Minister: @addcym @davestacey @johnmclear so should we […]
purpos/ed take 2 – The purpose of education is…
This post is my contribution to the 500 words campaign currently being run by purpos/ed. It may be one or two words over 500. I hope it was more of a guideline than a rule! —- The purpose of education is to allow learning to happen. A little twee? Perhaps. Maybe I can tell you […]
How digital badges could revolutionise ICT teaching – a plan.
There’s a growing buzz at the moment around digital badges, and I’m going to try and put down my thoughts, specifically on the following: Why I was initially so negative, and why I now think I was wrong One possible vision for the delivery of ICT embedding student choice and badges. I first came across […]
“Tell me how, Dave” or ‘Some thoughts on a future National Curriculum for Wales’ (!)
I was lucky enough to attend the excellent and thought provoking “ICT for Education” conference on Friday, followed by another inspirational Teachmeet. The following day I was pondering a lot of what I’d seen and the following thought crossed my mind. When I logged on to Twitter tonight I couldn’t work out why this comment […]
The Dichotomy of Feedback
Although I haven’t read his new book (yet), I’ve been thinking quite a lot about John Hattie’s idea about giving feedback being the most effective tool in a teachers armory. That seems to be drawing a growing number of people into ever increasingly sophisticed rubrics – breaking down responses and drawing up ladders that show […]
Teacher exchange – a suggestion
7 years in to my teaching career I have come to the unfortunate realisation that I’m now too expensive to move schools unless I want to take on a management role. [1. Not something I have a burning desire to do in the next few years – I’m too interested in my classroom and developing […]
Schama on History (5 minutes with…)
Flicking through some links, I came across the ‘Five Minutes With…’ videos on the BBC website, including one with Simon Schamawho is one of my favourite ‘popularises of History’.Well worth a watch if you’ve got a spare 5 and a half minutes, not least for this wonderful quote which will be added to my wall […]
Where for art thou blogging?
This term has been nuts. Not other expression for it. With a review of marking policy at school the pressure to keep up to date with everything has meant most other things have been forced off the agenda. Blogging, Tweeting, keeping up with #addcym, it’s all been an enforced hiatus while any free time has […]
The elephant in the corner of the education system
Checking through Twitter earlier I noticed the wave of indignation that normally indicates a TV appearance by English Education Secretary Michael Gove, and lo and behold he had been holding forth on the Andrew Marr show on various topics, including the forthcoming teachers strike. But it wasn’t that that got me thinking, so much as […]