Five Things I’ve Learned

No, not me… although I might give it a go soon… “Showcasing great examples of the best in education, Five Things I’ve Learned is a collection of personal reflections from education leaders devoted to improving the fortunes of others through learning.” These are great insights from some smart people.  Have a look.  You’ll be glad Read More …

comply or innovate?

Last night I was at an open evening at my kid’s primary school.  Their work was on display and I was finding out what the ‘not much’ and ‘nothing’ they do all day is. Two things struck me.  The first that there seems to be little room for initiative.  I mean real initiative beyond using Read More …

Ken Robinson – The Element

Sir Ken Robinson talks about his new book, The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything in the film of a talk at the RSA below.The book dropped onto my doormat yesterday morning and I’m really looking forward to reading it.  But for now have a look at a man who has clearly found his Read More …

100 Web Tools

You know that there are loads of cool new webtools around but you forget where they are, who they might suit or what situation they might be useful in? Well college@home have a very helpful list of 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner. What is great about the list is the ‘every Read More …

recording my research

I’ve decided to use the other blog I’ve had lying around doing nothing for a year to record my research and reflect a bit more on my Masters in Research.  I’ve written a little about it here and will still post things that are relevant to my work but I think keeping a separate blog Read More …

Talking Tech

Jack and I have been talking technology today. More later… Sorry John… I spent the morning talking about how the college (Scottish Congregational College) could make use of some of the very nice free tools that are around now to enable the college and its learners to share their thoughts, their work and communicate. We Read More …

what shoud I research?

If you read this blog regularly you’ll know I’m doing a masters in research.  I’ve come to the point where I need to decide what I’m going to research! Any ideas?  I was thinking something to do with church youth work and technology use.  Would that be helpful?  Does anyone care?  What would be the Read More …