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The Cottage: July 2008
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Wednesday, 9 July 2008. Very evocative passage in Justin Cartwright's The Promise of Happiness. Amidst the tired soul-searching on what defines Englishness, this'll do for me:. For Frances the church has very little to do with God; it's more a shrine to Englishness: flowers, history, familiar - if meaningless - hymns, your own kneeler and a sort of bracing draughtiness, long out of favour. Posted by Will Orr-Ewing. Wednesday, July 09, 2008. They're a...
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The Cottage: August 2009
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Sunday, 16 August 2009. Michael Gove and the return to 'chalk-and-talk'. I would really urge watching Michael Gove above on 'What education is for'. There's quite some possibility that this talk will act as one of the first big salvos in what is shaping up to be an increasingly divisive debate between the parties on education ahead of the General Election. It has galvanised certain bloggers into action, to be sure. This post. This paragraph is good:.
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The Cottage: October 2009
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Tuesday, 20 October 2009. Tutoring: A fresh debate. I've just finished an article on tuition, and am boldly looking for a publisher! I thought I'd share it here:. Tutoring: a fresh debate.
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So: do children (or some children) learn better as a result of a one-on-one tutoring? What sort of learning goes on one-on-one? What is lost here? Posted by Will Orr-Ewing. Tuesday, October 20, 2009. Links to this post. Wednesday, 14 October 2009. I've rec...
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The Cottage: June 2008
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Monday, 30 June 2008. This is an interview I conducted earlier in the year with Carolyn Cassady. You can listen to it here. The fantastic illustration (left) was done by the talented Tom Kingsley. What a curse a cult novel seems to be . By connecting so acutely with the zeitgeist, books like. Tend to seduce their readers with such emotion that any sense of objectivity is lost. The myths begin; the readers own the book. It's a fascinating case study o...
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The Cottage: January 2010
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Saturday, 16 January 2010. UPDATE FOLKS: I am now blogging, with the help of my good cousin Tom. With WordPress - and you can now find me here: http:/ www.willorrewing.com. Posted by Will Orr-Ewing. Saturday, January 16, 2010. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). London, United Kingdom. View my complete profile. What I do Keystone Tutors. What I do dysTalk. What I do USApplicants. Impact of computer games / internet. Follow me on Twitter.
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The Cottage: October 2008
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Sunday, 5 October 2008. DysTalk - up and running. Went live on September 2nd, 2008. If anyone has any feedback, we're all ears. Posted by Will Orr-Ewing. Sunday, October 05, 2008. Links to this post. Below provides some interesting empirical evidence for the elegant words. Of Ed Cooke, whose talk on using one's memory for great feats can be seen here. For the Brain, Remembering Is Like Reliving. Excerpts from The New York Times September 4, 2008.
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The Cottage: September 2009
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Saturday, 26 September 2009. I came across a student of the Traveling School. On holiday this summer. I had been initially struck by how much she enthused about her education, and was fascinated to hear about this project. In their own words:. The Traveling School started in the Spring of 2000 with a revolutionary concept generated by a group of high school girls and their teacher, Gennifre Hartman. They described a school with an educational format ...
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The Cottage: The Traveling School
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Saturday, 26 September 2009. I came across a student of the Traveling School. On holiday this summer. I had been initially struck by how much she enthused about her education, and was fascinated to hear about this project. In their own words:. The Traveling School started in the Spring of 2000 with a revolutionary concept generated by a group of high school girls and their teacher, Gennifre Hartman. They described a school with an educational format ...
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The Cottage: Repetition
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Wednesday, 14 October 2009. I've recently moved house, and for the first time have all my books in one place. This evening was one of the first chances I have had to actually make use of them. I re-read some dog-eared passages from Richard Sennett's amazing, rambling book The Craftsman. I'm glad I re-discovered this passage - a defence of repetition:. Posted by Will Orr-Ewing. Wednesday, October 14, 2009. 10 June 2011 at 14:49. London, United Kingdom.
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The Cottage: December 2008
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Education, Web 2.0, books, film and more. Cloud Atlas. Sunday, 7 December 2008. Matthew Parris vs. Clay Shirky. A great piece in Saturday's Times. From Matthew Parris on the speed and ease of communication - and its possible impact on liberty. Discussing the publication of the list of BNP members - and what bloggers have done with it:. What has changed is not the principle of what may be done, but the effortlessness and speed with which it may be done. For the last five years or so: that the ease of grou...
