foolfillment: the blog

Education adn Society today and it was a bit of a slog, I’ll need to see soon if the slides get put on moodle, it was mainly looking at statistics about poverty and deprivation do to with educational performance. It will probably be a good bet that this stuff will be in the exam in May, a bit like doing Higher Modern Studies again, just learning an regurgitating facts.

After that, a short trip to the flat where I looked at some blogs, in particular David Muir’s EdCompBlog who was writing about encouraging PGDE students to blog while on placement. Blogging about teaching is an excellent exercise, as is writing about any aspect of your life - and I strongly recommend it, there are other aspects of blogs that could impact on education. It also made me think about my lack of enthusiasm for things at the moment, I need to be interacting with the things I am learning about, I can’t take in much about how well kids learn in different levels of deprivation without seeing apects of it at the same time, whereas I can think a lot about how blogs affect teaching when I read lots of blogs about it, or any of the subjects covered in blogs I read…

Then went back into uni only to find the lecturer not turning up, bah!

Back to the flat then for a while to look at some GUPA t-shirt designs then back again for the first Understanding Energy lecture, we’ll see how this course goes but by the end of the first hour we were all struggling to keep attentive, worked through a sheet of questions about energy and the issues around it, which was all well and good - got us thinking, But then we went through the questions as a whole group, comparing our answers to the ones the lecturer expected, very dry and unengaging. In groups we completed about 30 questions in about 45 minutes, it took one and three quarter hours to get through half of them as a whole class and - joy of joys - we get to finish them off next time.

Spent the evening playing with my brother’s database project, trying to get a nice front end onto it. Slowly I’m picking up nibbles of PHP to make it work, but it’s slow progress because I’m in no way learning the language, just using snippets of it.

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