I recently came across James Paul Gee through David Smith. He is exactly what I was looking for: an eloquent champion of the beneficial role of computer games in learning. You can see him in two great talks here and here. Wikipedia entry here. Three points that resonated: “School is all manual and no game.” [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Good Teaching'
James Paul Gee
November 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Education, Good Teaching, Impact of computer games / internet
Tutoring: A fresh debate
October 20th, 2009 · No Comments · Education, Good Teaching, Tutoring
I’ve just finished an article on tuition, and am boldly looking for a publisher! I thought I’d share it here: Tutoring: a fresh debate. Private tuition has entered the national conversation. For long a rather mysterious operation, the media has woken up to its rapid growth – especially after the Sutton Trust showed that 43% [...]
Tags:educational policy
Repetition
October 14th, 2009 · No Comments · Education, Good Teaching
I’ve recently moved house, and for the first time have all my books in one place. This evening was one of the first chances I have had to actually make use of them. I re-read some dog-eared passages from Richard Sennett’s amazing, rambling book The Craftsman. I’m glad I re-discovered this passage – a defence [...]
Role of Teacher in 21st Century?
October 7th, 2009 · No Comments · Good Teaching
I quite like this from David Price’s blog today, about the role of the teacher in the future: Imparter of Knowledge, Guide and Personal Search Engine The last most of all, though. It seems to have gone pretty unnoticed that teachers are strictly not gatekeepers of knowledge these days – rather, they are the sifters, [...]
Tags:David Price
Jan Sramek and Racing Towards Excellence
October 6th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Good Teaching
We’ve been having some very interesting meetings with the team from Racing Towards Excellence. They seem to share some of our concerns about the provision for quality, impartial careers advice in schools today. For the purposes of this post, I wanted to quote a bit from Jan Sramek (the co-author’s) introduction to the book – [...]
Tags:careers advice·Jan Sramek·Malcolm Gladwell·Matthew Taylor·Racing Towards Excellence
Benjamin Franklin’s education
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · Education, Good Teaching
I’m re-reading John Taylor Gatto’s The Underground History of American Education, a rollicking read, and feel compelled to quote the passages on Benjamin Franklin’s education. Frustratingly, JTG is quite footnote-shy so I’m going to have to take his word for it. Indirectly, this provides early anecdotal evidence for the key role parents play in a [...]
A Fresh Start
August 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Education, Good Teaching, Impact of computer games / internet
With the optimism of the summer and a new academic year, this blog is going to see some changes. 4 posts a week, A bit more direction I’ve felt myself lurch ever closer to the ‘club bore’ on matters of education; this blog (rather than the ears of bored friends) shall become by receptacle instead. [...]
