The pace of change in how teaching and learning is delivered is increasing exponentially. It has been argued that since public education began, many things have stayed the same. When I was at school, I was taught subjects in discrete silos. The method of delivery was mainly ‘talk-and-chalk’ interspersed with Read more…
Quite simply it was a virus that was potent enough to demand interventions which required us to review how we interacted with one another. Bonds were broken to protect ourselves. Closeness, intimacy and social gatherings could have fatal consequences. ‘Safety in numbers’ became ‘risk in numbers’.
A critical Report on Scottish education is a call to action from the government.
This week we take a look at skills needed for the modern workplace.
Are we getting it right in our schools?
In a previous Blog I talked about the ‘haves’ and ‘have-nots’ in relation to the issue of school uniforms.
Another potent issue has arisen too during the past 12 months: The Digital Divide and its impact on our learners.
It has never been more important to have parents and carers involved in the education of young people. The invisible social contract between home and school always seemed to have a line between ‘home’ and ‘school’: current circumstances have blurred that line.
Things have changed but we still need to pursue the same teaching and learning attainment outcomes as before. With an estimated 1.6 billion learners out of school, creative strategies and tools are required, and new ‘hybrid’ remote learning methodologies adopted
The disruption caused by Covid-19 was and is undoubtedly the biggest upheaval in our education system since the second world war.
In this 9 part blog post series we revisit the Sentiment Analysis application we developed for Wholeschool
With the seemingly endless growth in popularity of mobile apps, it would be remiss of me not to take a second and jot a few words about how schools can utilise apps to stay connected to their community and increase efficiency in communication. First and foremost, I think it is Read more…