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Craig Newmark from his Wikipedia entry. You probably haven’t heard of “Craigslist” if you don’t live in the USA. Essentially it is the small ads website that has killed all other small ads websites. In addition it has performed the small feat of killing all private and most property advertising in US newspapers. The internet entrepreneur [...] From http://duhas-blog.blogspot.com/ This may sound like an old theme, but I think the time is right to revisit it. Scottish education is in the grip of near terminal seriousness. I feel fearful saying that, because countless meetings with educators at all levels have taught me that there is a lot of mileage in taking the business [...] Picture from: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/aug/31/teaching.teachersworkload I am doing something very pleasant as I write this; I am listening to Andy Vass talking to Argyll’s newly qualified teachers about “sanity in the classroom”. He mentioned a recent study that indicated that teaching is the third most stressful profession after the emergency services and mining/deep sea diving. This prompted me [...]
Image from Jean Snyder under Creative Commons I have spent some time chatting with colleagues from Secondary schools this week. Anyone who regularly converses with a Secondary teacher, (and probably primary as well), will be unsurprised to hear that time is endlessly fingered as the enemy of developing practice. I [...] “The Howwood Illuminations” by me! My little corner of creativity:-) I am a proponent of creativity and innovation. The problem is that everything we know about the conditions required to maximise our creative activity tell us that we need a lot of “provocation”. Provocation is a word that Edward De Bono used to describe external challenges [...] |
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