Archive for December 2008
Sometimes I’m just grumpy
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 20, 2008
- In: discipline
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There are a lot of excellent educational blogs out there, and most are well worth reading if one only had the time. But one thing bugs me; we tend to focus on what worked for us in class (and sometimes even what didn’t work), and so an outsider reading all these blogs would come away [...]
Junior Cert Revision
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 14, 2008
- In: junior cert
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To access the Junior Cert Revision document, simply right-lick on the link below and then choose ‘Save Target As’ to save it to your computer Junior Cert Revision Schedule Revision is one of those areas where I suspect some of us fall down. Particulary at Christmas time, I tend to forget that while the top [...]
Our first podcast
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 14, 2008
- In: Education | podcasts
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I know I should be using podcasting more in my teaching, and part of the reason I stayed away from it is because I figure my voice is just not that interesting (not much of an excuse I know). Anyway I figure students are much more interesting than I am, so I gave Maeve (Second [...]
Was the human species pre-ordained?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 13, 2008
I think this is one of the most significant questions that mankind has ever addressed, and yet I very rarely come across any reference to it. Stephen Jay Gould is probably the scientist best associated with this. His well known metaphor runs as follows: If you re-ran the tape of evolutionary history, an entirely different [...]
“History repeats itself because no one was listening the first time.”
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2008
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history.” Aldous Huxley “If men could learn from history, what lessons it might teach us! But passion and party blind our eyes, and the light which experience gives us is a lantern on the [...]
Fractals and Dinosaurs
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 4, 2008
- In: dinosaurs | Education | evolution | fractals
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Continuing with the space and dinosaurs theme: I get my transition years to do a project on absolutely any topic on Science which interests them, preferably something off the beaten track (i.e. not in the textbooks). fortunately this doesn’t seem to be a drawback in the slightest. Almost no aspect of science which interests them [...]
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