Open for Learning: Open Talk

EducationGuardian.co.uk | News crumb | Wiltshire school abandons 'old-fashioned' homework:

Personally I've long been in favour of abolishing secondary schools - as we know them - but at last we see someone saying something sensible about how education is 'delivered' in schools. Right on Mr Hazlewood.

"A comprehensive school in Wiltshire has just written off homework for 12 year olds deeming it, and the national curriculum, a "dinosaur".

Dr Patrick Hazlewood, head of the 1,450-strong St John's School in Marlborough, wants students to "manage their own learning" so that they learn to love learning for learning's sake.

Homework is "repetitious" and "generates marking that is often just a load of ticks and causes conflict at home," he said.

Instead, he has decided to test a programme thought up by the Royal Society for the Arts, which rejects the notion that a teacher's job is to transmit a body of knowledge to pupils."

Had sadly less time than I would have liked yesterday in Gut Gremmelin and could only promise participants at the workshop that I would post references to the issues and software I was talking about.
So - in a bit of a rush to my next meeting - here we go.

I will post the presentation on the Knotes software here tomorrow.

The presentation on ICt and learning in SMEs can be found in a previous blog entry.

To see it in use - see either my blog here - or better look at the Guidance Research Web site. There is more information about the different products and communities on the Knownet web site, including downloadable software.

Finally the papers and handbook about which I talked earlier can be accessed on the Open for Learning web site - which is the Knownet's e-Compete portal.

If anyone wants to know more about any of these products please email me.

Had sadly less time than I would have liked yesterday in Gut Gremmelin and could only promise participants at the workshop that I would post references to the issues and software I was talking about.
So - in a bit of a rush to my next meeting - here we go.

I will post the presentation on the Knotes software here tomorrow.

The presentation on ICt and learning in SMEs can be found in a previous blog entry.

To see it in use - see either my blog here - or better look at the Guidance Research Web site. There is more information about the different products and communities on the Knownet web site, including downloadable software.

Finally the papers and handbook about which I talked earlier can be accessed on the Open for Learning web site - which is the Knownet's e-Compete portal.

If anyone wants to know more about any of these products please email me.

Had sadly less time than I would have liked yesterday in Gut Gremmelin and could only promise participants at the workshop that I would post references to the issues and software I was talking about.
So - in a bit of a rush to my next meeting - here we go.

I will post the presentation on the Knotes software here tomorrow.

The presentation on ICt and learning in SMEs can be found in a previous blog entry.

To see it in use - see either my blog here - or better look at the Guidance Research Web site. There is more information about the different products and communities on the Knownet web site, including downloadable software.

Finally the papers and handbook about which I talked earlier can be accessed on the Open for Learning web site - which is the Knownet's e-Compete portal.

If anyone wants to know more about any of these products please email me.