For as long as I’ve been teaching content that requires more than a handful of notes, I have encouraged my students to use the Cornell method for note taking. Copying by rote doesn’t work beyond remembering things. For comprehension & understanding we need a different approach – one I think is encouraged by this method.[Read more]

There has been an understandably frenzied response to the initial findings of the National Curriculum Review expert panel report that was released earlier this month, particularly from ICT teachers who are facing the prospect of their subject being marginalised, or others who think it will be removed altogether. But are the report findings all bad news for ICT teachers?[Read more]

Critical thinking was once the purview of classicists & philosophers, but with those subjects still being squeezed out of schools that view them as elitist or irrelevant in the modern world, where does critical thinking fit?[Read more]

In September I moved to the beautiful island of St Helena in the South Atlantic. I recently started work on revamping the ICT curriculum, and am currently looking at a blank piece of paper surrounded by piles of reading material. What would you do?[Read more]

With the lack of colour ink & printer access here on St Helena, I’m having to get slightly more creative with the use of our laserjet printers & all the coloured paper I can lay my grubby little hands on. [Read more]