Peter Lydon

A pyramid showing the relative importance of skills and knowledge derived from education; Survival and Adaptability at the base; Meaning and Enjoyment in the middle; and Self-Fulfillment at the top. — What is the purpose of education? There is so much educational change happening globally it seems as if any country NOT actively trying to change their education system is somehow missing something and really ought to just get with the programme! Hardly a day goes by but the media carries […]

3 Purposes of Education – the Lydon Hierarchy!

17 Jun, 2014 in Education tagged Purpose of Education by Peter Lydon

Stupidity is to doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. Equally stupid is claiming, either implicitly or explicitly, to be an expert in something and then coming up with a plan to break it…..and thereafter coming up with another plan to fix the thing you had […]

I Learn, Therefore I Am

19 Feb, 2014 in Education / Teaching and Learning by Peter Lydon

I’ve just published an eBook on Kindle called ‘Junior Cycle Literacy – Keywords for Junior Certificate Geography‘. Here’s the blurb….. “..Improve your literacy for Junior Cycle Geography and revise for Junior Certificate Geography at the same time. Keywords for Junior Certificate Geography contains definitions and explanations matched to the Junior Cycle […]

Junior Cycle Literacy – Keywords for Junior Certificate Geography

7 Apr, 2013 in Irish Education by Peter Lydon

MakeUseOf is a website I found entirely by accident while surfing the interweb looking of resources. I subscribe to it to get automatic updates. Some of the updates you get will be about competitions to win stuff. It’s never happened to me so I have no vested interest in telling […]

IT CPD for Free

28 Mar, 2013 in EdTech by Peter Lydon

The title is otherwise known as the Einstein Principle – a scientific theory should be simple, but no simpler. What if their was a simple formula to teaching and learning? What if there was a simple formula for getting students to learn?There’s an interesting phrase – ‘getting students to learn‘; really what […]

Simple, But No Simpler

3 Mar, 2013 in Education / Teaching and Learning by Peter Lydon

This is one of those posts that teachers might take badly. If you think that’s you, go away now. So, there I was giving a talk loosely entitled ‘Teaching in the Geography Classroom’ to 3rd year undergraduate students in Maynooth. I present this talk every year and broadly speaking, it’s […]

Where’s Your Teaching-Mojo?

11 Feb, 2013 in Teaching and Learning by Peter Lydon

It is easy to forget the huge amount of work that has gone into thinking up and developing the Replacement Junior Cycle (I just can’t bring myself to call it ‘reform’). But huge work has gone into reducing all the knowledge in the world to 24 Statements of Learning. This […]

NCCA and the Amazing Statements of Learning

31 Jan, 2013 in Irish Education by Peter Lydon

When I began training as a teacher, the standard modus was to observe an experienced teacher and essentially copy what they did in the classroom. This may explain why practice was slow to change over years. While we have moved on a bit, training is still a bit like this […]

Disruptive Teaching and Learning

9 Dec, 2012 in Teaching and Learning by Peter Lydon

I took the Draft Framework for the new Junior Cycle and plugged it into Wordle. Wordle gives prominence to words that appear more frequently in a text. I left out the title page but otherwise just selected all of the text.I did the same with the final Framework for Junior […]

A Tale of Two Wordles

15 Nov, 2012 in Irish Education by Peter Lydon

Interview with GameToLearn

Interview with Game-to-Learn

12 Nov, 2012 in EdTech / Gifted Education by Peter Lydon

Peter Lydon

Teaching and Learning, Education and Technology.

Teaching and Learning, Education and Technology.

Peter Lydon

3 Purposes of Education – the Lydon Hierarchy!

I Learn, Therefore I Am

Junior Cycle Literacy – Keywords for Junior Certificate Geography

IT CPD for Free

Simple, But No Simpler

Where’s Your Teaching-Mojo?

NCCA and the Amazing Statements of Learning

Disruptive Teaching and Learning

A Tale of Two Wordles

Interview with Game-to-Learn