Had fun tonight blethering at a Curriculum for Excellence roadshow I’d been invited to take part in. Nobody was really interested in the wonderful investigations I had gathered evidence for, but then, I should have had more detail on the boards to explain what was going on in all those photos. On the other hand, [...]
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Roadshow
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, libraries, literacy, tagged blogs, copyright, Curriculum for Excellence, information literacy, libraries on November 18, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Scotland: History or Mystery?
Posted in information literacy, learning and teaching, tagged English department, information literacy, investigations, Scotland History/Mystery on July 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This was the first investigation I ever wrote completely from scratch. It was conceived in collaboration with my very good friend, PT English, but the actual lessons came from me, something that left me very proud and extremely scared. We based it around Scottish myths and legends, with witches and ghosts and superstitions, lots of [...]
New blood II
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, libraries, tagged Curriculum for Excellence on December 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I held a meeting with a trio of student teachers to discuss building an investigation. While the idea needs some more work, I gained a lot of insight into their current thinking and how new students might approach working in the library. One task was to find five good websites on da Vinci, but ironically [...]
New blood I
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, librarians, thinking, web 2.0, websites, tagged student teachers on December 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Every year, I speak to the student teachers about how important libraries are to education, and how they can get the best out of them. Usually, it goes along the lines of “Go and talk to the librarian – a lot. Keep them up to date in what your plans. Don’t forget to include them [...]
Investigating Japan
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, Uncategorized, tagged assessment, Japan, mindmaps, sumo on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
New investigation today all about Japan. As usual, we’re working to create something that demands thought and synthesis and avoid copy and paste. We hasn’t investigated Japan for a while as new staff were trying out new topics, so it’s nice to be back. This time, we’re asking groups of pupils to create an itinerary [...]
Chuffed
Posted in information literacy, investigations, librarians, professionalism, tagged kids, university on November 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Left at lunchtime on Friday to go along to Daughter’s school show (really funny and well produced), and discovered The Envelope from uni waiting for me at home. Got good comments for my final assignment so I’ve now completed my PGC APS. I’d love to continue, but the cost is just too much, for now [...]
Vikings!
Posted in information literacy, investigations, resources, thinking, tagged Vikings on November 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Had a great time with 1st year making Viking posters. We started yesterday by identifying evidence for various kinds of Viking activity (as opposed to just copying from the books). Today each group took one topic each and after a quick discussion, went off to raid the resources. Six groups, six posters: Raiders, Traders, Farmers, [...]
Scotland’s contribution to science
Posted in education, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, questioning, tagged Alexander Fleming, Alexander Graham Bell, Scotland's contribution to science, Scottish scientists, Sophia Jex-Blake on August 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This started off begged, borrowed and stolen from a colleague. PT Science originally told me that the Faculty wanted to reintroduce an old investigation on famous scientists, which later turned into Scottish scientists, which further transmogrified into “Scotland’s scientific contribution to the world” to allow scientists whose work took place in scotland too. Not that [...]
Can you be a constructivist librarian?
Posted in education, For education, information literacy, investigations, learning and teaching, librarians, thinking, tagged constructivism, Teaching for Understanding, Visible Thinking on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Brooks, G.R. and Brooks, M.G. (2000) “Becoming a constructivist teacher” in A.L. Costa (ed), Developing Minds: a resource book for teaching thinking (pp. 150-157). Alexandria: Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. There’s plenty of fascinating stuff in this tome but I’m particularly taken by this article. The authors define constructivism as a theory of learning that [...]
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