Archive for August, 2009
Monday, August 31st, 2009
Men In Film
Once again Philip Scott Johnson does a great job in creating visual art this time about men in film. I know I recognised at least half the men in the film.
The list appears below - look at the film first before you read this list then check off ...
Posted in Art, Creativity, Video Clips | No Comments »
Friday, August 28th, 2009
Thanks to John Connell and Ron Burnett for this amazing clip from X-box and Lionhead Studios. I have played a little Wii before and was thinking about guitar hero for the school and lunchtime music classes but this takes gaming to another level again. The potential for education here is amazing. Imagine ...
Posted in Teaching, Technology, Video Clips | 1 Comment »
Monday, August 10th, 2009
Recently a few parents asked for the school's support in dealing with the issue of cyberbullying. Whether the problem arose at school or at home in the end is probably not the issue - its how to stop it in the first instance and then educate youth on the power ...
Posted in Uncategorized, cyberbullying, parenting, school | 7 Comments »
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
David Perkins from Harvard University was another keynote speaker at the Singapore conference.
He put the proposition that a lot of what goes on in schools is educating for the known - we teach lots of information - spelling rules or maths equations or history often decided by state wide curriculum ...
Posted in 2009 Singapore Conference, Uncategorized, curriculum | 5 Comments »
