Education

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

On Monday 23rd September, Fred Boss (@FBoss) kindly allowed me to take over #edchatie for a Twitter chat to mark Gifted Education Awareness Week 2013. #edchatie is a weekly chat on issues of interest to teachers and other educators. You can view past #edchatie chats here. #edchatie attracts a wide […]

#edchatie ‘Challenging Gifted Children in the mixed-ability classroom’

23 Sep, 2013 in Gifted Education / Irish Education / Teaching and Learning by peterlydon

The recent case of a divorcing couple has garnered some attention because of an unusual ruling which a High Court judge had to make in the case. In his judgement, Justice Hogan ruled that a 12 year old boy should attend a private school. (disclaimer: I teach in a fee-charging school) […]

Are Gifted Children Better Off in Private Schools?

22 Aug, 2013 in Education Reform / Gifted / Gifted Education / Giftedness / Irish Education / Teaching tagged Court Judgement / Private schools / School Culture / State schools by peterlydon

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

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

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

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

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 […]

Does Not Compute!

24 Mar, 2012 in EdTech / Irish Education / Teaching and Learning by Peter Lydon

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