Posted in Extreme learning, Uncategorized on May 20th, 2007 2 Comments »
I’ve been trying to pull some of the recent work on Extreme Learning into one place for teachers to use as a web resource.
Hopefully I can finish it over the next couple of weeks.
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, Edubuzz, Extreme learning, Ideas, Learning Logs on May 18th, 2007 4 Comments »
Our Newly Qualified Teachers (NQTs) met yesterday for the second session on Learning and Teaching. As I explained earlier this week we focussed upon Extreme Learning and experimented with the process and explored possible assessment models.
Reading the feedback it would appear that responses to the session are something of a curate’s egg - some people loved it and [...]
Posted in Extreme learning, Uncategorized on May 15th, 2007 1 Comment »
Apologies if this post seems a bit disconnected - I’ll try to tidy it up later.
On Thursday we’re holding the last of our Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) support programme.
This will be a follow up to the session I led in October.
My plan is to focus upon Extreme Learning by splitting up the group into teams of 5/6. [...]
Posted in Extreme learning, ICT, Learning and teaching, Partnerships, Social media on May 13th, 2007 2 Comments »
We held our latest Extreme Learning meeting on Thursday.
David Gilmour and myself have been working on the idea of on-line templates for learners to use as a framework for their Extreme Learning projects.
As I’ve previously explained the template concept proved to be too restrictive for learners; technically too demanding for teachers to support; and limiting [...]
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, Exc-el blogs, Extreme learning, ICT, Learning and teaching on Mar 28th, 2007 3 Comments »
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I spent an afternoon with David Gilmour exploring possible Extreme Learning templates.
It was interesting how we went about the task with some reference to my post yesterday about the Amundsen approach, i.e. we spent a lot of time considering at “what ifs?” [...]
Posted in Extreme learning, Uncategorized on Mar 27th, 2007 No Comments »
We’ve tried to contact all schools but if you were thinking about coming along to the Extreme Learning Meeting tomorrow- don’t - it’s been cancelled.
We’ve been working on a variety of templates but don’t yet have them complete.
I’ll write out to all involved with the new date which will be early in the new term. [...]
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, Exc-el blogs, Extreme learning on Jan 21st, 2007 8 Comments »
We reconvene our Extreme Learning Group in late February.
Over the last couple of months we’ve been playing around with an on-line Extreme Learning project. Hopefully this will be completed by the time we meet but it has been useful in enabling us to try out the theory and smooth out some of the technical and [...]
Posted in Curriculum for Excellence, Extreme learning, Management, Parental Involvement on Dec 5th, 2006 1 Comment »
We had a great presentation today from May Sweeney and Alison Wishart about their recent visit to Victoria and Tasmania to explore emerging curriculum models.
I was particularly interested in the Victorian Essential Learning Standards which has three key strands: Physical, personal and social learning; Discipline based learning; and Interdisciplinary learning.
What captured my attention was the [...]
Posted in Assessment, Curriculum for Excellence, Extreme learning on Nov 22nd, 2006 3 Comments »
Alison Wishart has just returned from Australia where she was exploring alternative secondary school curriculum models - some of which match with our extreme learning ideas
I had a great chat with Alison this morning which set up a discussion with secondary head teachers this afternoon.
Alison was telling me about schools in Australia where the early [...]
Posted in Extreme learning on Nov 18th, 2006 3 Comments »
The Extreme Learning exemplar is starting to take shape.
A number of things are emerging:
Perhaps we should have a number of project templates - not just about the look of the site - which would give students a scaffolding to build their project?;
It would help students if there was guidance in each of the knowledge areas [...]
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