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Mr Belshaw is dead, long live Doug Belshaw!
I mean, of course, that this website has moved home. You need to update your bookmarks and RSS feed readers if you want to continue the journey:
You can subscribe to just the posts relating to education over at the blog itself.
This blog (
teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk) will remain online as an archive of the thinking I’ve done and connections made over the last two years. Comments are closed and pingbacks to posts shall be rejected. The conversation has moved to
dougbelshaw.com!
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Last year (2006), Stephen Downes went away for a while. Today Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert, decided to blog less citing family reasons and the fact it’s taking him away from revenue-making activties. This post is to announce that I too will be taking a bit of a break.
The word that Downes used to describe his absence was ‘hiatus’, a remarkably apt word:
According to my Collins 21st Century Dictionary, ‘hiatus’ means:
an opening or gap; a break in something which should be continuous.
I’m not going to go into a great amount of detail as to why and when I’ll be back. Suffice to say that I’m not (long-term) ill, everything is fine with my family, and I’ll be a teacher for the foreseeable future. So keep me in your feed reader. Or not. I’ll still be blogging occasionally over at
edte.ch.
I’ve just emptied my feed reader of the ‘edublogs’ and the ‘edublogs - must reads’ folders, with the idea being that I’ll rediscover the good blogs when I return in the new year.
Finally, I’m not going to be on
Twitter. Well, at least not as
mrbelshaw anyway…
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» According to the Guardian, Lilian Katz, a worldwide authority on nursery education, has stated that, “It can be seriously damaging for children who see themselves as inept at reading too early.” She believes boys in particular are rushed into reading too soon and this makes them passive and receptive instead of active and assertive. Interesting. More grist to the mill and another reason why I’ll be trying to convince my wife that not sending Ben to school until 7 is a good idea…
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