How important is encouragement to Olympic class athletes? I’d like to start off with an admission of error….
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Lessons from the world of sports: #4 The rule of expert guidance (Updated)
A conversation that has never taken place, and probably will never take place.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #3 The rule of eclecticism (Updated)
I’ve called today’s rule the rule of eclecticism because it’s about learning from different, and disparate, disciplines.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #2 The rule of detailed analysis (Updated)
Anyone who voluntarily leaps off a board which is 10 metres high – imaging three double-decker buses stacked on top of each other with a car balancing on top – has to be nuts. That’s not me saying that, but Leon Taylor…
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Lessons from the world of sports: #1 The 1% improvement rule (Updated)
Small, perhaps seemingly insignificant, improvements can make a big difference.
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21 "laws" for computer users
The next time something goes terribly wrong when you’re using technology, console yourself that it’s happened to everyone!
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Great ideas for coping with technology-related stress?
21 rules for computer users (Updated)
Great rules for coping with technology-induced stress? This is an updated version of an article published on 10 November 2009.
Read More7 rules for ICT teachers, co-ordinators and leaders (Updated)
Here is a set of rules that I hope you will find useful.
Read MoreTerry's top ten tips for tutors using Zoom
The following rules can be adapted (to an extent) by any tutor teaching an online course to adults or young adults.
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A useful rule of technology
What do trainee teachers or colleagues who are new to education technology need to know?
Read MoreHubris in the world of education technology
I believe that there's a fine line between letting people know you're an expert, and displaying too much self-regard. If keeping on the right side of that line proves a bit of a challenge, here are three "rules" that could help.
Read MoreLessons from the world of sports: #6 The rule of practice
What lessons can we in the field of educational ICT learn from sports? In this, the sixth part of this mini-series, we look at the issue of practice.
Lessons from the world of sports: #5 The rule of encouragement
Welcome to the fifth part of this mini-series, in which I consider lessons we might learn from sports and sports personalities which we can apply to educational ICT. How important is encouragement to Olympic class athletes? I’d like to start off with an admission of error….
Lessons from the world of sports: #4 The rule of expert guidance
Here is the fourth part of this mini-series, in which I consider lessons we might learn from sports and sports personalities which we can apply to educational ICT. Today I’d like to consider the role of the sports coach, and to start with I’ll quote from a conversation that has never taken place, and probably will never take place.
Lessons from the world of sports: #3 The rule of eclecticism
Welcome to the third part of this mini-series, in which I consider lessons we might learn from sports and sports personalities which we can apply to educational ICT. I’ve called today’s rule the rule of eclecticism because it’s about learning from different, and disparate, disciplines.
Lessons from the world of sports: #2 The rule of detailed analysis
Here in London we’re pretty much immersed in the Olympics at the moment, and it occurred to me recently that there are several ideas which can be applied from sports to educational ICT. Last week I was invited by Acer to a talk in the Olympic Park by Leon Taylor, the champion diver. In this, the second part of the mini-series on lessons from sports, we look at what he had to say about detailed analysis.
Lessons from the world of sports: #1 The 1% improvement rule
Although not by nature an avid sports fan, I have been enjoying the recent offerings in the forms of the Tour de France and the Olympics. While engrossed in these I was struck by how far the work needed to do well in these activities could be applied to education in general, and ICT in education in particular. I will be exploring this idea over the next seven articles, starting with this one, in which we look at the 1% improvement rule.
Rules rules rules
In case you missed them, here are a few posts I’ve written listing rules. They’re a little light-hearted – but they are serious too!
Enjoy!
In case you missed it... Rules
We do take things too seriously sometimes. Occasionally it can be good to relax a bit, especially in these austere times.
There's a rule for everything in life, and technology has spawned quite a few "laws" in its own right. Here are some to start reflecting on, in 21 rules for computer users.
Enjoy!
7 More Rules for ICT Teachers, Co-ordinators and Leaders
All over the country, indeed all over the world, ed tech evangelists are bending over backwards helping, training and cajoling their colleagues into adopting the use of technology in their own curriculum area. Let’s be honest, most of the time it’s a thankless task. The hapless ICT Co-ordinator