Attributes of Successful Schools in the Digital Age | The Tech Edvocate
I think this may be rather putting the cart before the horse in terms of assuming the significant attributes of schools are their use of digital technologies. It takes more … Continue reading
How Finland’s Amazing Education System Works | Big Think
Finland’s education system works because its entire structure has been around several core principles. First and foremost, equal access to education is a constitutional right. Another important principle is that … Continue reading
The internet is the end of libraries? Not in Finland!
You might be forgiven for thinking that the Tory government subscribed to the view that Libraries were redundant given the ubiquitous nature of the internet. Finland begs to differ and … Continue reading
17 Teaching Principles of Effective Instruction | TeacherToolkit
What is it that makes a teacher highly effective? The Principles of Effective Teaching, research by Professor Barak Rosenshine. Source: 17 Teaching Principles of Effective Instruction | TeacherToolkit
Dipsticks: Efficient Ways to Check for Understanding
Todd Finlay at Edutopia gives some great advice about checking for understanding. Such checks form a much better format for assessing learning than traditional marking as it gives the child … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence: Who is Writing the Future?
Artificial Intelligence is undoubtedly going to play a significant part in our futures. That brings up ethical and moral dilemmas regarding the purposes for which we are going to be … Continue reading
10 Global Megatrends Facing Education | BBC News
The OECD’s head of education forecasts the biggest questions being asked of schools around the world. Unfortunately I’d say these challenges were pretty accurately outlined here. We should have overcome … Continue reading
Gamification: Changing the Ground Rules For Learning
Much has been written about the subject of gamification in learning. It covers a massive scope of developments. At one end of the spectrum is included artificial intelligence, online … Continue reading
Crossing Divides: The friends who are good for your brain | BBC News
Why mixing with a diverse group of people can do a lot to make us more creative. Source: Crossing Divides: The friends who are good for your brain – BBC … Continue reading
Finnish Education: What’s All the Fuss About?
Thank you to my Finnish friend Pirjo Suhonen for this useful overview of Finnish education from ALO Finland. Without Imagination there is no Creativity or Innovation | ALO Finland
Artificial Intelligence, Monitoring and Educational Ethics: Engagement Detection
Thank you to Ian Grove-Stephenson for bringing this disturbing article to my attention. We are all aware of the capacity of computer based technologies to make a decisive impact on … Continue reading
The Key Learning Theories Explained
This chart gives you access to the key learning theories shaping learning. The accompanying article gives further detail. Thanks to Richard Millward and Terry Heick for all their hard work … Continue reading
7 Deadly School Sins | TeacherToolkit
I was amazed in the course of my school career about how much time was spent in busy work. Things which were done without question, and with little effectiveness. … Continue reading
The Emotional Energy Matrix in Your School
An interesting article from Joseph Little, Director at CPC SYSTEMS LIMITED on the emotional energy matrix and its applications to organisations. It certainly rings true of every school I’ve worked … Continue reading
Future Proof Your School: Cultural knowledge, in-house experience and project planning methodologies | Briefing Notes #2
Every learning organisation has a culture. This forms an underlying set of values and ways of doing things which determines how practice is maintained, and changes resisted or embraced. This … Continue reading
What is Wrong With the School System…
The schools and reformed penal system of the nineteenth century had similar antecedents and moral drivers and came up with extraordinarily similar systems for the management of those in the … Continue reading
Are there any teachers out there who would encourage their students to pursue teaching?
An interesting article by Sandro Bellantone which hints at what is behind the teacher recruitment and retention crisis… Are there any teachers out there who would encourage their students to … Continue reading
Why Examinations Only Test Increasingly Marginal Skills
Our friends at TeachThought.com came up with this interesting article which crystallises some of our thinking on the subject of examinations and their relevance to 21st century life… 25 Personality … Continue reading
Engaging with E-learning
Too often in education, Information Technology has been sold on its features. These may be very enticing all-singing, all dancing Technicolor elements, but at no point does it demonstrate achievable … Continue reading
Sabotaging Your Own Classroom!
These are all pretty effective ways to undermine your work in the classroom… usually it takes years to appreciate this. Middle school veteran Jennifer Gonzalez identifies 10 ineffective habits new … Continue reading
Finland: Culture, Trust and Education
Among the most significant features of Finnish education is not found in the classroom, or even in the school, but in the role of education at the heart of the … Continue reading
An Open Invitation from the Learning Renaissance to Join Our International Reflective Learning Community Resource
If you represent a school or other learning establishment, you are very welcome to include a link to the Learning Renaissance on your online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) library. There … Continue reading
INSET Days and How Not to do them!
The start of a new term means there is likely to be an INSET day in the offing… Ross Morrison McGill wrote this article that got me thinking about the … Continue reading
New Year Resolutions…what to bin to give yourself more creative space
We all start the New Year with strong resolutions in mind. We often find that they don’t last the first week back at school! Ross Morrison McGill of Teacher Toolkit … Continue reading
Scaffolding Discussion: Socratic Method
If ever there was a time when students need to know how to conduct a discussion in a rational evidence based way then it is now. Web 2.0 has allowed … Continue reading
Helping Students Develop Executive Function Skills | Edutopia
This is a well-informed article outlining how to develop higher order thinking skills, either to recover a deficit or to have students thinking on a higher plane. Simple classroom strategies can … Continue reading
Biggest winners and losers from degrees | BBC News
Women studying maths at Oxford and men taking economics at Bristol get the biggest increase in earnings from going to university, says an analysis of salaries at the age of … Continue reading
