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Even a well-designed quasi-experimental study is inferior to a well-designed...
EBSCO Publishing Logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) In favour of randomized control trials Torgerson and Torgerson (2001) The dominant paradigm in educational research is based on qualitative methodologies...
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The Shallows – Nicholas Carr – I’m about to give up after Chapter 3
In Chapter 3, ‘Tools of the mind’, after a potted history of maps (not cartography) and clocks (not horology), we get an equally potty view of the plastic mind and neuroscience. Carr is no...
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Exploring students’ understanding of how blogs and blogging can support...
Fig.1. Why Blog? If anything has been written on blogging I want to read it. On 27th September 1999 I posted to my first blog – it was on blogging and new media. We’re now in the phase of transition...
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To teach is to nurture and the best metaphor for the mind is to see it as a...
Fig. 1. My own vision of education as nurturing – like growing plants in a garden ‘Her metaphor for the brain is that of a garden, that’s full of the most interesting, different things that have to...
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Reading ‘Red Nile: a biography of the world’s greatest river’– a gem
At times you laugh out loud, always informative, great stories, full of well-known facts with a twist, as well as a myriad of gems. The kind of book I would have bought and sent to people for the...
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On reflection
It has been refreshing not to blog for a month. It is easier to reflect. Had it become compulsive? A necessity to post whether I had something to say or note? Now qualified with a Master of Arts in...
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You don’t learn to swim by reading a book …
An applied degree must therefore be situated in the workplace? Too much theory without practice was described by the owner of a successful specialist engineering firm in Germany today as ‘like trying...
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