Connected 21 is now online with articles and features on literacy, Gaelic, PE and computer games.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/connected/articles/21/index.asp

It’s not as odd as it sounds, but innovations in spaghetti sauce (and Pepsi, and mustard) might hold clues as to how Glow, the Curriculum for Excellence and other ‘national’ initiatives can prove successful on the most niche of local levels.
At Learning and Teaching Scotland I’ve been leading some monthly Inspiration Sessions, today being the […]

Anyone who is a drops in on my edubuzz blog may have noticed that the last few posts of the term pointed to new mp3s of pupils playing. The reason for this sudden increase in recording activity was that I received as a gift a Zoom H2 Handy Recorder. It is handy not least because […]

I was reminded of this quote today:
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826); 3rd president of US.
The reason it came to mind was that while thinking about apparent serendipity, an alternative perception occurred to me which might best […]

In 1994 I went on a trip to Sweden with the Lothian Regional Orchestra and Jazz Band. Our host, a man with the resoundingly Nordic name of Gerry Morrisey, took us out for a tour in his car and and pointed out a patch of spare ground covered in oil where learner drivers would practise […]

Thanks to Ewan McIntosh for a link to a Times Online article I’d otherwise have missed concerning Leonard Sax’s book Boys Adrift: The Five Factors* Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
This is a massive field and one upon which I do not feel qualified authoritatively to comment. However, one claim […]

Connected Live will be reporting regularly throughout one of the world’s biggest education shows, BETT, at London Olympia.
Come here from Wednesday morning to discover the best podcasts, videos and bloggers’ coverage from around the web, as well as a peek from a Scottish perspective.
We’ll also provide a live rolling blog of Friday night’s TeachMeet08, the […]

The front cover of this weeks New Scientist boasted a promising article about procrastination. Uncharacteristically, I ripped it open and began reading immediately. If anyone in my orbit would like to borrow it, just ask and I’ll bring it in sometime in the next fifteen years.
Seriously though, my mountain of NS back-numbers is quite redundant […]

Jim in The Highlands was quick to note Channel 4’s move from £6m per year on educational television programming to a large part of £6m per year on online educational programming. Is educational TV dead on C4? Not quite, but it’s certainly undergone some serious surgery to make it recognisable to a 2008 teen. Channel […]

How many epiphanies are you allowed in a lifetime? Assuming that the answer is - as many as you’re prepared to let in - then, are they likely to have anything in common?
I’d say that the common factor in all those moments when I was struck by something so meaningful that it should really have […]