Posts Tagged ‘Education’
The Two Cultures – why our schools are to blame
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 6, 2011
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer By Walt Whitman When I heard the learn’d astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, [...]
Did you know that you won the lottery?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 17, 2011
We have always assumed that ‘we’ will be around forever; not only that but we wonder how long it will be before we can colonise other planets and solar systems. We conveniently ignore the fact that our being here in the first place may be nothing more that the fortutitous result of an incredible set of [...]
Please put SPACE on our Science syllabus
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 11, 2010
- In: big bang | cosmology | Education | syllabus
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science.ie is currently hosting a survey of readers to find out what they consider to be the greatest mystery in Science. The leader by quite some way is “How did the universe begin?” The theme for this year’s Science Week is “Our place in space“, and no doubt thousands of students will spend an hour [...]
Is it a particle or is it a wave?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: October 6, 2010
Sometimes I think I’d gladly be locked up in a dungeon ten fathoms below ground, if in return I could find out one thing: What is light? Galileo, from the play Life of Galileo, by Bertolt Brecht The single greatest source of debate among physicists in the early decades of the last century was to [...]
A big welcome to morestresslesssuccess
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: July 8, 2010
As teachers, most of us are happy to spend hours giving out about all that’s wrong with our education system and what should change. All too few of us however are prepared to put our head above the parapet and take the time to make our opinions public (with the obvious exception of salary talks). [...]
On the lack of wonder in education: Monbiot hits it on the button
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 8, 2010
George Monbiot, who writes for The Guardian, finished a recent piece on communication in science with the following: We are deprived by our stupid schooling system of most of the wonders of the world, of the skills and knowledge required to navigate it, above all of the ability to understand each other. Our narrow, antiquated [...]
Wha’ is the stars, Joxer?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 21, 2010
Boyle: An’, as it blowed an’ blowed, I ofen looked up at the sky an’ assed meself the question — what is the stars, what is the stars? … Joxer: Ah, that’s the question, that’s the question — what is the stars? Boyle: An’ then, I’d have another look, an’ I’d ass meself — what [...]
CESI annual conference next weekend
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: February 2, 2010
- In: conference | Education | technology
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Once (and only once) a year do teachers come together from all sectors of education to share ideas and resources on teaching. You don’t get paid for attending, you don’t get a day off school and it doesn’t count as in-service training (although that wouldn’t be a bad idea) so the only teachers you will [...]
Passion and Inspiration
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 25, 2010
Rule no. 1: Passion I had only been teaching for about three years (mostly junior cert science and leaving cert maths) and was getting fed up with it. I would have liked to have been teaching Physics but there were already two physics teachers in the school so it wasn’t looking like that was going [...]
Evolution to be taught in UK primary schools
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: November 17, 2009
Evolution is to be taught in UK primary schools And we still can’t get it on the Junior Cert Biology syllabus at secondary level. Now when I say ‘we can’t get it on the syllabus’ that may be a little misleading – it may well be that no biology teacher cares enough to do anything [...]
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