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Walking the tightrope between cynicism and sincerity
Mar 16, 2016 |
Category: Featured
Life is either always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
I wrote recently about unscrupulous optimism. Mostly this seems to have been understood as a warning against...
Some assumptions about scripted lessons
Jan 31, 2016 |
Category: Featured
"So long as we use a certain language, all questions that we can ask will have to be formulated in it and will thereby confirm the theory of the universe which is implied in the vocabulary and struc...
#ResearchED - Everything you know about education is wrong
Sep 06, 2014 |
Category: Featured
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.
Charles F. Kettering
I realise I must have come as something as a disappointment for all those expecting the curly-headed medical mis...
Why I changed my mind about the SOLO taxonomy
Jun 15, 2014 |
Category: learning
I've been meaning to write this for quite a while. Increasingly, I've become rather embarrassed about my erstwhile advocacy for Biggs & Collis's generic taxonomy, the Structure of Observed Learning Ou...
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