There are multiple supper short chapters packed with first rate tips and insights making it an essential reference as well as one a core text to read and note in full. The graphics leave something to be desired - it pays to get in an illustrator. This is not a review, though I should compise one. … Continue reading Evidence-Based Teaching (Second Edition) Geoff Petty (2008)
Category: Reflection
The future of education has arrived
Just yesterday in a passionate exchange with my wife I was proposing why we are on the cusp of something new in education, that the old order was done for. I imagined how the star teacher could lead a team and education 1000 at a time, brand John Sowash from his media room broadcasting to … Continue reading The future of education has arrived
How education is changing forever
When the University of Coventry decided to put all its course content online five years ago it hired in a team that included teachers and creators, academics and media makers, planners, designers and coders; a lot of them came from the Open University. Traditionally classwork in schools and colleges is created and ‘owned’ by the … Continue reading How education is changing forever
Seven ways to Happiness
Dr Anthony Claire died three years ago. Do you remember him from BBC Radio 4? I've put this together from a replay of an old BBC radio programme and an article from the Times with Gyles Brandreth. If you have plans for 2021 why not aim for the greatest challenge of all ' happiness? Number … Continue reading Seven ways to Happiness
On ‘Reflection in Higher Education’ by Jenny Moon in 1753 words
[First posted 17 September 2010 with some rewirtes in February 1914 and again today, 22 December 2020. As a lifelong diarist I know the value of being able to revist old notes; they like like compost getting better and better over the years. Here I seed some fresh thoughts from a wholy different perspective - … Continue reading On ‘Reflection in Higher Education’ by Jenny Moon in 1753 words
