So what can we learn from Jack Welch, the legendary CEO of General Electric? Although schools and GE are very different types of institution, you may be surprised to discover that school leaders could benefit from adopting some of Welch's strategies.
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Anyway the point is, if you are keen to encourage colleagues to use ICT in their lessons, you don't necessarily have to obtain new stuff. What you already have in school may be sufficient.
In this article, I look at how Excel (or any other spreadsheet) might be used to help explore the idea of iteration.
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In my book "Go On, Bore 'Em: How to make ICT lessons excruciatingly dull", I looked at the ten most common sources of the problem. In this series of podcasts, Elaine (my wife) and I discuss my motivation for writing the book, and try to dig a little deeper into its underlying philosophy.
In this third episode in the series, we explore the third chapter, called "Where are we going?". Basically, the lesson will be more interesting and effective if the students (and the teacher) have a clear idea of what it's all leading up to.
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I run a small consultancy business. By "small", I mean that there is only myself going out and doing the work. That means that sometimes I need to partner up with others, join a consortium, or get myself on a larger company's database.
I recently applied to be placed on the books of a large company, and I learnt a lot about what not to do.
If you are trying to get educational ICT embedded in the curriculum, what you need to do is forge partnerships, because teamwork, in the usual sense of the term, is irrelevant here. (I explain why in another article).
Here is how not to do it.
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If part of your role is to get others to use educational technology in the curriculum, then what you need to do is forge partnerships and not, as is commonly surmised, focus on teamwork.
The differences between the two need to be understood if you are to stand a reasonable chance of being successful in effecting large-scale change.
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