How important is encouragement to Olympic class athletes? I’d like to start off with an admission of error….
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Lessons from the world of sports: #4 The rule of expert guidance (Updated)
A conversation that has never taken place, and probably will never take place.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #3 The rule of eclecticism (Updated)
I’ve called today’s rule the rule of eclecticism because it’s about learning from different, and disparate, disciplines.
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Lessons from the world of sports: #2 The rule of detailed analysis (Updated)
Anyone who voluntarily leaps off a board which is 10 metres high – imaging three double-decker buses stacked on top of each other with a car balancing on top – has to be nuts. That’s not me saying that, but Leon Taylor…
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Image by ShokuninHere is a handy guide to the recent series of eight articles on the theme of what we in educational ICT can learn from sports and sports people.
Hope you find the series useful and enjoyable.
Lessons from the world of sports: #8 The rule of celebration
I said at the start of this mini-series that I would be exploring the lessons we in the educational ICT community can learn from sports – but here is #8! Well, I’ve always said that there are three kinds of people: those who can count and those who can’t! Anyway, here’s what I have called the ‘rule of celebration’.
Lessons from the world of sports: #7 The rule of Specialisation
In this mini-series I’m looking at lessons we in the educational ICT community might learn from sports. In today’s article we consider the role of the specialist, and its relevance for peer assessment.
Lessons from the world of sports: #6 The rule of practice
What lessons can we in the field of educational ICT learn from sports? In this, the sixth part of this mini-series, we look at the issue of practice.
Lessons from the world of sports: #5 The rule of encouragement
Welcome to the fifth part of this mini-series, in which I consider lessons we might learn from sports and sports personalities which we can apply to educational ICT. How important is encouragement to Olympic class athletes? I’d like to start off with an admission of error….
Lessons from the world of sports: #4 The rule of expert guidance
Here is the fourth part of this mini-series, in which I consider lessons we might learn from sports and sports personalities which we can apply to educational ICT. Today I’d like to consider the role of the sports coach, and to start with I’ll quote from a conversation that has never taken place, and probably will never take place.
Lessons from the world of sports: #3 The rule of eclecticism
Welcome to the third part of this mini-series, in which I consider lessons we might learn from sports and sports personalities which we can apply to educational ICT. I’ve called today’s rule the rule of eclecticism because it’s about learning from different, and disparate, disciplines.
Lessons from the world of sports: #2 The rule of detailed analysis
Here in London we’re pretty much immersed in the Olympics at the moment, and it occurred to me recently that there are several ideas which can be applied from sports to educational ICT. Last week I was invited by Acer to a talk in the Olympic Park by Leon Taylor, the champion diver. In this, the second part of the mini-series on lessons from sports, we look at what he had to say about detailed analysis.