Category: Tim
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R1 Frustration
My mental capabilities aren’t what they were ten years ago when I embarked on my undergraduate studies. Certainly that’s how it feels a decade later as an unsettled post-grad student. I’m working on finishing my R1 or at least the first complete draft of it. The literature review has been a particular struggle in…
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Why should teachers design learning?
I have the feeling that I’ve posted about something similar before. Just some general thoughts and questions about learning design (small ‘l’ small ‘d’).
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Capturing the worst of teaching
“You don’t have to be in a classroom to have a bad learning experience, you can access one from anywhere on your iPhone!”
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Technology and the easily-distracted mind
Since I started my PhD adventure I have been finding it hard to focus, with reading academic texts and writing anything meaningful being particular issues. I am often a little bit tired and struggling to juggle too many thoughts and tasks. I am hoping my newly acquired piece of late 1990s technology will help rid…
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Modelling the impact of planned interventions
Time for a brain splurge about one thread from a thought provoking meeting with MWJ earlier today. I’ll sum Mark’s idea up as “what if you could reasonably accurately model the impact of a series of planned interventions on a simulated classroom?” and hope I didn’t miss the plot completely.
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Choose two charities not to help
I’ve just completed an online voting process. As a bonus for bothering a 20p donation will be made to charity. However, this is not the kind of decision I like to make… A “Please don’t put me in a moral dilemma like this and pick one for me” button would be nice. Or what if…
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Incompetence
Just a quick post about incompetence on a very small but very personal level. It has just taken me three attempts to put the correct URLs in the correct places in a blog post. The problem? There were only two references to get in the right order and yet it still took three attempts. This…
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Taking cuttings
The winter just gone took its toll on several plants in the garden. One particular casualty was a rosemary bush which was dead apart from the end of one branch. Rosemary is one of my favourite herbs to cook with and so a month or two ago I took a cutting. This evening I planted…
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The Hazards of Forced Participation
If someone has had the opportunity (gaps in talking) to contribute to a group discussion, but hasn’t spoken up, then maybe: they haven’t got anything they want to contribute at that moment; or they don’t feel comfortable or confident expressing their views in the group situation; and they may well not appreciate any attempts, within…
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