Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....
…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...
The teacher has a place of honour in human history; there is an inherent nobility in teaching that persists even today when perhaps the teacher’s true wor...
The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...
This is the second piece of a 2-part post. Part 1 can be found here. In my M-Learning post from August 2014, I wrote that: …providers of content, courses,...
This is the first piece of a 2-part post. Just 18 months or so ago I pondered here on my blog whether M-Learning was about to go mainstream. I wrote: The combin...
Despite the seeming diversity of social, cultural and political influences on educational policies and practices across the globe, the received wisdom around wh...
The world has already moved beyond the point where we need professional mediation to create, for example, a polished piece of video. Anyone today can choose to ...
For as long as school has existed, the fundamental model of schooling has remained the same: scarcity of information and a paucity of means of access to that in...
Probably my favourite method of relaxation is to pick up my guitar in the privacy of my own home and pick away at a few chords. I occasionally even produce the ...