Tag: mindset

Drawing #mindset #grit #resilience #flow #learning

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on February 4, 2017

I cannot draw. This has been my mindset since about 8 years of age. Aged 48, I now understand how it came to be that […]

Posted in Digital life, Education | Tagged Adobe Sketch, art, drawing, flow, grit, iPad, learning, mindset, resilience, teaching, writing | 10 Comments

My #reading December 2016

Posted by Darcy Moore | Published on December 30, 2016

Why shouldn’t we separate children as young as seven or eight into two groups: those few children who are “gifted and talented” and the many, […]

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alexander Weinstein, Angela Duckworth, Bruce Pascoe, David Hunt, flow, grit, Helen MacDonald, Maxine Beneba Clarke, mindset, reading, reading in 2016, Richard Fidler, Roger Warner, Tim Winton | 1 Comment

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Darcy Moore

@Darcy1968

Just found an edition of Nineteen Eighty-Four with a critical introduction and really useful annotations by Bernard Crick, Clarendon Press, 1984. John Rodden, in his new book (2020) on #Orwell’s reception and reputation, recommends it as under-appreciated and hard to find. pic.twitter.com/3679…

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“The whole system is a catastophe” says @PiccoliMp re: #Naplan which was predicted in 2009 by educational experts but political expediency won the day and our system lost out. #SMHSchools

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An unusually hypercritical message about our edu-systems from academics, unionists & educrats today. How will the same people, who have been i/c across the plethora of edu-bodies for 20 years, change their thinking to build a properly functioning education system? #SMHSchools

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The biggest drop in #PISA is the top quartile says @mscott and once again the question begs, is that a problem created by our inherently managerial approach to curriculum? #SMHSchools

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How important is it to reflect on the impact of managerial outcomes based syllabi in the decline @GMastersACER highlights in the performance of Australian 15 year olds over the last 15 yrs? Does a clear parallel with this model of curriculum and lower lit/num emerge? #SMHSchools

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Who will be talking about this at the #SMHSchools tomorrow? education.nsw.gov.au…

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