Blog posts May 2011
One Born Every Minute: Putting Women at the Heart of Care
'One Born Every Minute' is some of the most compulsive TV I have seen in a long time. I became addicted one rainy Sunday, when I persuaded myself that it was research for one of our maternity related health projects. Other hardcore aficionados generally tend to be pregnant women who want to prepare themselves for what...
The Power of Backward Design for teachers
I’ve just been reading an extract from Understanding by Design,by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, which is about what they call ‘teaching for understanding’.
One of the key compononents of this is ‘backward design’, the essence of which is that
Our lessons, units, and courses should be logically inferred from the results sought, not derived from the methods, books, and activities with which we are most comfortable.
They contrast this with what they call ‘...
What MP3s can teach public services
There are two stereotypes about innovators. The first is of the outsider, alone in his garden shed (and yes, it is a ‘he’). The second is of the enormous corporation, with endless resources for R&D. Of course, both of these have produced amazing innovations, but so have a thousand other types of innovators. I was reminded of the danger of those stereotypes by a piece from Mckinsey on innovation and the US...
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