foolfillment: the blog

I’m sitting here listening to a podcast of a radio show that was broadcast yesterday in Manitoba, Canada. Not what I would normally do, certainly. However this is a bit different., this three hour show (podcast cut down to 1hr 40 when you take out the news and adverts) was all about teaching. Darren Kuropatwa is a mathematics teacher who was the main interviewee, along with other teachers from North America. They are covering a massive amount of really interesting topics - maths, teaching approaches, online safety, using technology in the classroom and why we have to change the current model of education. Can you imagine teachers being let loose on the airwaves in Scotland or the UK for three hours? And to talk about these (controversial?) topics

I can’t write a better summary than Neil Winton has so I would urge you to go and read his post from yesterday, thanks for bringing this to my attention Neil!

Of course I should also point you towards the podcast.

There was also a lively Chatterous back channel, which I haven’t read through yet, you can find that here.

I will mention this part though, one caller brings up the point: ‘When a teacher changes his teaching by using new methods and new technologies that most other teachers are not using, then how do we make sure that the tax payer getting a good return for their money?’ This point ties in very nicely with a recent series of posts by Don Ledingham.

Tags: education, kurupatwa, neilwinton, podcast, teaching

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