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 […]
Irish Education
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
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
ZX Spectrum (Bill Bertram) In 1983 a friend of mine acquired a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, the gift of his father. He got a 48K model and some ‘peripherals’ as well. ‘Peripherals’ was a new word to us and we used to play around with its pronunciation, such was our fascination […]