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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: Commentary
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How utterly depressing. Michael Gove wants to take a curriculum already groaning under the weight of too much content and add more ‘facts’. 70 years ago, Albert Einstein famously asked “why should I clutter my brain with information that is readily available from reference sources?”. Yet, in the age of Google, Gove still doesn’t get…
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I met Christina Jenkins at a Futurelab event last week, and she pointed me to the School of One pilot project: School of One encapsulates a lot of the stuff I’ve been ranting about for years – freeing teachers up to actually teach, breaking out of the class-of-30 mindset, using computers to do what…
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Three years ago, I predicted that the iPhone, and phones like it, would soon become everyday educational tools. Where are we up to with that? Having spotted this on the Orange website, I’d say we are now only a year away. If Justin Bieber is endorsing a phone, then it must be cheap enough to…
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So the Schools of the Future building programme has its head on the block. Good. It was a total misallocation of educational funds, that actually aimed to build 19th Century schools dressed up to look vaguely modern. Like a horse and cart with go-faster stripes. The really frustrating thing is that the real educational needs…
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In the end it was called the iPad, not the iPrint. But I think I pretty much nailed it. The iPrint leads to paperless schools (13/07/2005)
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