Category: Professional development

Review: Untitled (Past, Present, Future)

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 22, 2018

Visiting the Stedelijk Museum with my family, after three rewarding but long days of getting value for money from our museum discount card, was one […]

Posted in Popular culture, Professional development | Tagged art, installation, Orwell, review, Stedelijk Museum, wall wrap | Leave a Comment

Review #GeorgeOrwellOnScreen

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on October 4, 2018

My positive disposition towards George Orwell On Screen (Adaptations, Documentaries and Docudramas on Film and Television) – before ever getting to read it – was due to David […]

Posted in Professional development | Tagged David Ryan, Orwell, reading | Leave a Comment

‘The Cult of Hattie’: ‘wilful blindness’?

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on August 26, 2017

“There is a science to learning and we are finding out more and more about what works best to support the learning processes that make […]

Posted in Education, Professional development | Tagged effect size, Hattie, statistics, Visible Learning | 49 Comments

Asia Education Foundation: Australia-India #BRIDGEprogram2017

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 21, 2017

Cultural exchange is a very important value for the school I serve. “A Wider World View” is encouraged through hosting guests, especially from our region […]

Posted in Professional development, Travel | Tagged AEF, Asia Education Foundation, Bal Bharati Public School, BRIDGEprogram2017, DHS, exchange, India, New Delhi, Sydney Oper House | 3 Comments

Mindfulness and Grit

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on December 20, 2016

In all those very different contexts, one characteristic emerged as the best predictor of success. And it wasn’t social intelligence, it wasn’t good looks, physical […]

Posted in Professional development | Tagged DHS SDD, grit, mindfulness, optimism, resilience, UoW, wellbeing | 1 Comment

The BOSTES Review

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on August 20, 2016

The Review of BOSTES (Board of Studies, Teaching and Educational Standards NSW) commissioned by the NSW Minister for Education in March 2016 has been released. […]

Posted in Education, Government, Professional development | Tagged ACARA, AITSL, BOSTES, managerialism, NAPLAN, NSW_DoE, reform | 9 Comments

NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: San Francisco #4

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 25, 2016

San Francisco is a wonderful city to explore with many homes and buildings having memorable architecture. Tacy Trowbridge hosted my visit to Adobe in San Francisco (located […]

Posted in Education, Professional development, Travel | Tagged Adobe, Adobe Spark, citizen science, PTS, San Francisco | 6 Comments

NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: Washington #3

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 21, 2016

“The Genographic Project is an ambitious attempt to answer fundamental questions about where we originated and how we came to populate the Earth. Through your […]

Posted in Education, Professional development, Travel | Tagged aDNA, Adobe, Adobe Spark, citizen science, DNA, genetics, genome, human genographic project, National Geographic, PTS, Smithsonian | 2 Comments

NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: New York #2

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 14, 2016

“From its inception, a PDS education was founded on relationships and learning by doing; it valued play as creative cognitive growth and working together as […]

Posted in Education, Professional development, Travel | Tagged Adobe, American Museum of Natural History, citizen science, New York Botanic Gardens, PTS | 1 Comment

NSW Premier’s Teacher Scholarship Study Tour: New York #1

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on May 7, 2016

“No one should come to New York…unless he is willing to be lucky.” […]

Posted in Digital life, Education, Professional development, Travel | Tagged "BIG HISTORY", citizen science, DNA, NSW Premier's Teaching Scholarship, PTS | 2 Comments

Darcy Moore

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The #Orwell quote from The Lion and the Unicorn was worthy of a run: "A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase" in The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY #brexit

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The Malign Incompetence of the British Ruling Class nyti.ms/2RWEZsY and I do wonder if @aroberts_andrew would describe himself as a "right wing historian"?

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MIT, Stanford professors are designing a cryptocurrency to top Bitcoin fortune.com/2019/01/… ping @Downes

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In Time (2011) by Andrew Niccol is not a futuristic dystopia but informed contemporary economic analysis. Discuss. pic.twitter.com/nOBf…

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The rest of the quote: "In order to fit into these organisations, individuals have had to deindividualise themselves, have had to deny their native diversity and conform to a standard pattern, have had to their best to become automata." twitter.com/Darcy196…

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Aldous Huxley sagely wrote: "Too much organisation transforms men and women into automata, suffocates the creative spirit and abolishes the very possibility of freedom ..." #managerialism twitter.com/sdinhamu…

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