Category Archives: Blog “Longpath” for Learning part 1 This article was partly inspired by reading the following article on Wired Magazine by Ari Wallach: http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2013/04/ideas-bank/forget-short-termism Photo from Wikimedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:David_Crawshaw This is what education should be focusing on now. In a recent Inside Learning episode/show, I realised that political oscillations and playing idealogical football with education would not…  Newspapers this week picked up on Michael Wilshaw’s speech to the Brighton College education conference. Most centred on his mention of stress. “(we need) to challenge those who have power invested in them to make the difference, but too often make excuses for poor performance – it’s just too hard, the children are too…  The purpose of education is an endlessly fascinating and deeply puzzling question. I know it has exercised many minds recently on twitter, and indeed Jay wrote a piece on it on our Inside Learning blog. I have recently inclined towards the view that the purpose of education is economic. Education has to help you to… A good friend of mine is the headteacher of a very innovative and successful primary school. Recently he was asked by some local councillors to demonstrate how his school was attaining. It got me thinking about how complex this question actually is. John was eleven in 2004. He spent his days in class learning…  Image from: http://www.recareered.com/blog/2011/01/11/7-steps-to-social-branding-job-search-secret-weapon/ A recent thinking event, #Edupic11 for educators and those with an interest in it, reached a few early conclusions about the future of education; among these was the widely held view that educators were not sufficiently trusted. Building trust as a way of unleashing more potential and capability in the system was… |
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