Posts by Cecelia
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Unfortunately, those volumes are bound back copies of The Truth.
Good one liner:)
I watched the homeopathy story last on Close Up because it was promoted and my husband likes One News. I vowed never to watch it again after the 'farm endangered species' story. But I'm fascinated by homeopathy and at the very least some interesting personalities poked through the superficial coverage.
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What do you think of Russell Bishop's "deficit theorising", Tony?
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I've just seen the story about Brooke's apology vs PM, Craig.
Speaks volumes.
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Is there anything in the standards which will prevent inquiry based learning? The wording of the standards from what I've seen suggests that thinking skills and the ability to interpret texts will be as important as ever. No multi-choice tests looming a la the USA.
It's just that a child will be judged according to the standard and placed on a percentile chart from a very young age. And league tables.
And God stiffen the crows, I've just read the Listener editorial on this subject. What a shallow unresearched knee jerk reaction. Sounds awfully like the back page. How sad.
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One thing I noticed about boys when I was a teacher was that they really got into words. Generalisation - but it was a way I could connect with boys. It was a sort of counterbalance to being a gushy, girly overenthusiastic English teacher.
But Orwell has a point too, eh?
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Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas incarnadine,
Making the green one red.Shakespeare mixes it up
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One of my UK sons is returning to the Antipodes but not to NZ. To Melbourne where after a year he'll get a substantial house deposit from the gummint.
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Economically illiterate, me, but I was kind of thrilled by Bernard Hickey's passionate article in the Herald today.
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10625085
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That was a great read, Jolisa.
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Thorough answer, Gordon. I actually have a pretty old copy of The Learning Revolution!
The fact that Google's developers were Montessori students is very interesting. But just to be difficult I want to ask this: if the Montessori method is so good, why isn't everyone using it?