Posts Tagged ‘Education’
Assessment: the tail that wags the dog
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: August 25, 2009
- In: assessment | Education | intelligence
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All this talk about whether leaving cert results or aptitude tests are better for gaining information about a student’s ability to become a doctor reminds me of the story of the drunk looking for his keys under the streetlight. A cop walking his beat one night finds a drunk on his knees, searching [...]
Shhh, I got me this sweet deal goin’ on
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 25, 2009
Don’t tell anyone. I got a got a sweet deal with my bosses and I want to share it with just you. Keep it to yourself. These are in no particlular order. What have I left out? See where I work nobody checks up on me. I get paid over 60 grand a year and my [...]
Why aren’t we teaching about global warming in schools?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: March 18, 2009
Quietly in public, loudly in private, climate scientists everywhere are saying the same thing: it’s over. The years in which more than two degrees of global warming could have been prevented have passed, the opportunities squandered by denial and delay. On current trajectories we’ll be lucky to get away with four degrees. Mitigation (limiting greenhouse [...]
Ernst Mach: the problem with Science Education
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: January 15, 2009
1859 marks not only the 150th birthday of the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, but also a somewhat less well-known occasion; It was the year Ernst Mach published the first of his 500 publications (his last was published five years after his death, in 1921). Most will know of this man through [...]
Trainee teachers get a raw deal
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: November 27, 2008
- In: practical work | Science | youtube
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Does a medical student get to work on a patient/diagnose a patient for the first time unsupervised? Does a trainee mechanic get to work on the brakes of a car for the first time unsupervised? So why is a trainee teacher who is on teacher practice in a classroom, usually unsupervised? Because the main [...]
Some cool science resources
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: July 15, 2008
Just got back from wonderful New Zealand yesterday and came across some of these impressive deals. Digital calipers from aldi for €10, available from Sunday 13th (checkout blowtorch available also for €10). Why would anyone use the old-fashioned vernier calipers when you these cut out all the confusion. Ideal for ‘measuring the resistivity of wire’ experiment. [...]
Do you teach a modern language? If so subscribe to Joe Dale now!
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: April 21, 2008
There are a whole lot of education blogs out there, but one of the very best has to be Joe Dale’s “Integrating ICT into the MFL classroom“. He gave a presentation at the CESI conference this year and people had to be turned away at the door. Every subject needs to have a [...]
Ten Great Ideas
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 16, 2007
Been thinking about my previous posting. What are the ten great ideas in Science that we don’t emphasise? The average student remembers bugger-all about science, but if we were told there were ten things that a student had to remember, what would they be? 1. Kinetic Theory – Everything is made up of atoms and [...]
Where does the ‘stuff’ in trees come from?
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: December 16, 2007
- In: Education | misconceptions | Physics | Science
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learner.org is an interesting site which “uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools.” One of the issues they address is the area of misconceptions in Science. This is a wonderful video which asks where does the material that makes up trees come from. College graduates from Harvard and MIT were asked [...]
quiz with a difference
Posted by: ozymandias1 on: September 24, 2007
- In: Education | Physics
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Saw this recently in a physics education journal (IOP Classroom Physics). I’m probably the last person to have come across this, but still . . . When giving a quiz why not give the answers and have the troops figure out the questions? It gets them thinking, as opposed to simply vomiting back up the facts they learned off the [...]
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