jimwynn333

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• created Reflections on India over 4 years ago.

  I have just returned from a 5-day trip to Amber, near Jaipur in Rajasthan, India. I flew to Delhi then took a four-hour car drive to Amber - this was my first taste of India. I have already travelled to Africa, Pakistan and the Middle East and my snapshot of India leaves me puzzled, the people, especially the women, as so colourful but this is contrasted by, for example, mountains of litter, people urinating and abject poverty. You quickly get used to camels pulling carts, elephants carrying...

• created Foy’s Law over 4 years ago.

  I've found myself refering to Nancy Foy and Foy's Law over the last few days in various conversations and as I've been quoting her for years I thought it worth sharing here- I think she was way ahead of her time and the first part of this quote could be a very early insight into why social networking is effective and "official" attempts less so. Look at the date of her work! "The effectiveness of a network is inversely proportional to its formality. It needs a spider not a chairman, a list...

• created Nuture talent & celebrate success! over 4 years ago.

  Today's thoughts- spurred on by Martin and Mike. Literally no issue in education is exclusive of any other and, I think significantly, a small change in one area can have a massive impact on another- just think how group work impacts assessment methodology, for example. The butterfly effect is alive and well in education! Transformation is never achieved overnight, it is the result of continuous incremental change and it is the relative weight that Government and the education community put ...

• created Nurturing Talent over 4 years ago.

  I’ve just come away from a meeting where we shared our thinking about connected health, education, government, safety and security and so on in the emerging markets. I was struck by the type and strength of opinion held by the audience over the future of education compared to the other areas. It is clear that many people see education as underperforming, in need of reform and in particular the need to change the teacher into a coach and the see only the learner as the centre of attention. I ...