Keeping Your Child Safe Online

Posted by on Aug 7, 2009 in education, social media | 0 comments

This blog doesn’t normally deal with issues of child safety, however this week’s news reports of bullying by sexting have for some reason fuelled my otherwise calm demeanor!  Needless to say, I’ve deleted a list of things to do to the foul creatures involved in this behaviour.  See any Roald Dahl book for suggestions.  In place of anger, I’ve drawn up a list of things...

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Teach Skills, Not Subjects!

Posted by on Oct 13, 2008 in learning | 4 comments

The title to this blog has been my personal mantra for many a year now.  It started as a suspicion in the back of my mind as I pondered my own wasted school experience.  But now I’m ready to shout it to all who want to listen. Traditional education is a failure because its focus is on teaching information about subjects.  We are expected to memorise this information and then regurgitate...

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If Music is the Food of Brainpower, Play On!

Posted by on Jun 11, 2008 in learning | 2 comments

Canadian researchers have discovered that there is a learning link between children who play a musical instrument and their performance in the classroom. Read about it here. Musically trained children tend to do better in memory tests and have a higher IQ scores on average than those who do not.  How does it work? A professor, who specialises in the psychology of music, claims that music of...

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