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What am I?

An interesting day culminating in the chance to meet some candidates for the headship available at my school.  I may well take this post down later as being too pretentious.  A remark by someone about expecting questions about mobile technology (I asked about learning spaces) got me thinking about what people know about me.  I hadn’t met this person before and yet they made an assumption.

Strange really, as the technology side of our department is only around 20% maximum of what we do.

Taking inspiration from the gapingvoid manifesto I thought I’d make a crude attempt at summing up what I am about:

Indeed

  • Geography is my passion. I believe that it holds the key to creating individuals who not only understand their world but who are able to engage with it and, more importantly, to change it. However, the education of individuals (and not just children) is far more important to me.
  • Sometimes the most innovative thing we can do involves a piece of paper and a pint of tea. Technology isn’t necessarily pedagogical innovation.
  • I’m about the team.  At least, I hope that’s what they say about me ;-)

Comments

  1. Peter G Knight6 April 2011 at 18:29

    I very much hope you don't take this down.

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  2. JDebens6 April 2011 at 19:59

    It's a great team with a great team leader - and not too pretentious!

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  3. David Rogers7 April 2011 at 07:18

    Dear Peter and Jo,

    Thank you very very much for taking the trouble to post your kind words.

    Best wishes

    David

    ReplyDelete

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