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
ArchivesPosts Tagged ‘thinking’
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
28OctNew posters
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. 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
28NovICT as the Muses’ birdcage
In the 4th century BC the Ptolemies of Alexandria began throwing money at the arts. They did not make the same distinctions between fields of study as we do today, and housed scholars from all disciplines together in the “Muses’ birdcage,” blurring the lines between otherwise disparate disciplines. I think this should be the role of ICT in the modern curriculum.Continue Reading
