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Book Review: “Smarter, Faster, Better ” by Charles Duhigg | Rossleigh's Education Blog
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Rossleigh's Education Blog. Book Review: “Smarter, Faster, Better ” by Charles Duhigg. March 26, 2016. From Smarter, Faster, Better. Ok, for those in Australia, the title of Charles Duhigg’s latest book, “Smarter, Faster, Better” may remind them of the Liberal Party’s slogan for the NBN, “Fast Affordable Sooner”, but don’t let that put you off. The book is divided into sections with such topics as Motivation, Teams, Goal Setting and Absorbing Data, with a useful appendix about putting these concepts into...
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February | 2014 | Rossleigh's Education Blog
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Rossleigh's Education Blog. Monthly Archives: February 2014. February 3, 2014. Education Minister Christopher Pyne has announced a $70 million Independent Public Schools Initiative, which aims to make around 1,500 more public schools autonomous within the next three years. The Commonwealth’s money will mostly be spent on building the skills base for principals and their leadership teams in schools that apply for independent. Public schooling,” he said. To lift that school’s performance.”. I could go on, ...
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Laptops and Exponential Change and “let’s just get back to basics”. Or “I can drive perfectly well by looking in the rear-view mirror!” | Rossleigh's Education Blog
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Rossleigh's Education Blog. Laptops and Exponential Change and let’s just get back to basics . Or I can drive perfectly well by looking in the rear-view mirror! December 6, 2015. The manager and leader differ in the way they use technology. The manager is primarily concerned with using technology to improve the current outcomes. The leader, on the other hand, is interested in proceeding to new destinations and in examining the role technology may play in reaching the destination. I’m not anti-change I th...
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January | 2016 | Rossleigh's Education Blog
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Rossleigh's Education Blog. Monthly Archives: January 2016. Behavioural Economics, Human Nature, Teenage Nature. January 24, 2016. This theory-induced blindness now strikes nearly everyone who receives a PhD in economics. The economics training the students receive provides enormous insights into the behaviour of Econs, but at the expense of losing common-sense intuition about human nature and social interactions. Graduates no longer realise that they live in a world populated by Humans. Behavioural econ...
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Why Laptops Should Be Banned… Along With Calculators and The Ballpoint Pen | Rossleigh's Education Blog
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Rossleigh's Education Blog. Why Laptops Should Be Banned… Along With Calculators and The Ballpoint Pen. April 10, 2016. There was an article about Sydney Grammar School banning laptops in the classroom. Quoting the principal as saying. ‘I think when people come to write the history of this period in education this investment in classroom technology is going to be seen as a huge fraud.’. To me, there’s one good reason to use technology in schools and it has nothing to do with improving test scores&#...
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The Kettle Press | Politics, Social Issues, Opinion | Page 2
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Politics, Social Issues, Opinion. Climate of the Nation 2014. Climate of the Nation 2014. Australia is slamming out the backdoor and bolting to the dunny because this government is so drunk on its ideological view of advancing carbon pollution for short term $ gain, that we are all being crapped, headfirst, into the thunder box. Yes, I feel that strongly about it. They are not. They are representing an ideology and it is almost exclusively beholden to mining and the largest corporations. Their style of i...
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Climate of the Nation 2014 | The Kettle Press
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Politics, Social Issues, Opinion. Climate of the Nation 2014. Climate of the Nation 2014. Australia is slamming out the backdoor and bolting to the dunny because this government is so drunk on its ideological view of advancing carbon pollution for short term $ gain, that we are all being crapped, headfirst, into the thunder box. Yes, I feel that strongly about it. They are not. They are representing an ideology and it is almost exclusively beholden to mining and the largest corporations. Their style of i...
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The Fate of the Prime Minister | The Kettle Press
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Politics, Social Issues, Opinion. The Fate of the Prime Minister. Ærchies Archive - Digital Detritus. Fears, not hopes;. Observations, not recommendations;. Thoughts, not plans. Several days ago I wrote a tweet about tony abbott. Capitals are for proper nouns and I can find nothing proper about the man who is our current Prime Minister. The tweet was a. I was rightfully criticised for stooping to THEIR level . This made me take a closer look at my current feelings about our leadership. The China Free tra...
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Refugees at Sea; 29th June | The Kettle Press
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Politics, Social Issues, Opinion. Refugees at Sea; 29th June. It is time we Australians draw the line in the sand and demand ‘our’ government not only listen to us, the people they ‘represent’ but demand they tell us exactly what is going on with asylum seekers. Ærchies Archive - Digital Detritus. A record of the attempts panicking and hopeless people make. To reach Australia, the Land of the Fair Go. Ms MacTirnan has since appeared on ABCnews24 and confirmed all that was reported. So The Good News.
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A PM who only knows aggression is a threat to the country | The Kettle Press
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Politics, Social Issues, Opinion. A PM who only knows aggression is a threat to the country. Abbott, apparently, has no impulse control. No Place For Sheep. The Abbott government’s attempted defenestration. Of President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, Professor Gillian Triggs has, like so many of this government’s ventures into domination through aggression and bullying, badly backfired. In the matter of the looming execution of Australian drug smugglers Chan and Sukumaran. You are commenting ...
