‘World Cafe’ 2016
One of the ways in which I have traditionally tried to help students to judge the accuracy, relevance and legitimacy of the information they encounter in their studies has been….
Read More →Steve Jobs on becoming
‘Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let….
Read More →Teaching, the BBC and the Under-5s
Reports this last week of a motivational crisis in teaching are hardly surprising. In a 2013 Gallup study of 230,000 full-time and part-time workers in 142 countries, only 13% of people….
Read More →Digital Amnesia
When I was 10 my home telephone number was drilled into me – if I ever got lost, my parents figured, I’d always know where to ring. I can still….
Read More →Occasional Updates 03
Jane Hart’s annual list of the top 110 tools for learning is once again dominated by free online social tools. Number 1 is … Twitter. It’s how people get their….
Read More →Occasional Updates 02
In the first couple of weeks at uni (when did university become ‘uni’?) students might be asking themselves what they’ve let themselves in for. And in fact, it’s not always….
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