Friday 5 October 2007

Good news coming


I am working in earnest on the new Coming of Age: An Introduction to the NEW Worldwide Web, finishing off the latest Computers in Classrooms, and catching up with notes from various conferences.

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Mulla Nasrudin's Donkey

muleWhat can a story about a traditional Persian folk hero teach us about management? In this article, I look at the Mullah's experiment with improving his donkey's running costs, and the lessons we can learn from it.
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Thursday 4 October 2007

There's only one thing worse than being talked about, and that's being talked about too much

Forgive the misuse of the well-known Oscar Wild quotation, but why is always assumed that the more comments there are on a student's work, the better? We need to consider the management overhead, and the implications for the impact on learning, of a multitude of comments.
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Oh, Sir, You are too kind

Reading through people's blogs, especially those of educators, one thing that strikes me is what a nice bunch we are. Everything people say about barriers to implementing the use of educational technology across the school is correct, but I also believe that part of the problem is our willingness to make allowances.
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