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?Continue Reading
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27NovCritical thinking in the curriculum
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?Continue Reading
24NovWhat would your curriculum look like?
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?Continue Reading
02AugRe: The myth of the extraordinary teacher
Ever felt like teaching was an uphill struggle? So does everyone else, but impossible it’s not – we just need to consider carefully our definitions of the word success. People who say it’s impossible to be an extraordinary teacher are part of that uphill struggle, making goals seem more difficult to achieve, but it is possible.Continue Reading
08DecWhat ICT can be
As part of a presentation at an SSAT seminar entitled ‘How to make ICT the most popular subject in your school’, here is my presentation – pushing ICT lessons beyond their original definition as we look at the history of war, from an ICT perspective.Continue Reading
14SepFree scheme of work for OCR Nationals unit 1
Updated: click here for details Good lord it’s been a long time since I made a post. The reality is that I’ve been working on this for about four months, in and around everything else that’s been going on. It’s now just about ready for release, so here it is. What is it? Some Rights Continue Reading
