Digital support for authentic enquiry
Just back from a workshop trialling our WordPress plugins for EnquiryBlogger, a tool we’re developing for Learning Futures. We had a mixed group of Learning Futures teachers, other teachers and workplace learning specialists, convened by Ruth Deakin Crick from the Systems Learning & Leadership group at U. Bristol. The group was being introduced to, and […]
Working with “Learning Futures” on authentic enquiry
Learning Futures is a national initiative to foster, evaluate and share secondary school innovation, around four priorities which they see as central to the future shape of learning in schools (but we’re interested in its relevance to post-secondary learning as well…): Extended Learning Relationships: The 21st century heralds the possibility of a system redesign that […]
Learning skills impact Ofsted inspection
I commented earlier on the way in which schools in England are assessed, which is still dominated by high stakes SATs exam testing, even at Primary School Key Stage 2 level (11 year olds) — the sector in which I’m most involved. The new controversial Ofsted inspection regime has recently got tougher, with a continued […]
Resilience and Liminal Space
I’m trying to clarify how learning, sensemaking, emotions and spirituality interweave. It all happens in the same person, so we can’t chop them up. Being in London for a few days at PCF5 has given me that little extra reading time I don’t normally find in the family home 🙂 So yesterday I had the […]
