I
responded to an Ofsted Inspection Governor Evaluation survey this
morning. The questions were quite leading in order to praise Ofsted’s
inspection regime. So, I answered the questions and then added a
little rant about how the framework doesn’t celebrate all the
wonderful things we do outside the standard curriculum; breakfast
clubs, after school clubs, adult education programmes, school
council, swimming lessons, nurture groups, inter-school competitions
and the list went on. But will anyone read the response? Will it
contribute to anything? Who knows, but I was asked to fill in the
survey so I did it.
I
was a little nervous writing this morning too because I wondered
whether I could actually string two coherent sentences together without some
heinous spelling mistake. This week, the jazz musician Jason Rebello
tweeted to tell me I had a typo on the web address of my blog. It read,
‘Dairy of a Chair of Governors’. Imagine my embarrassment! There I am, a Chair of Governors, trying my best to improve literacy across the school I help and I'd made a silly mistake on the web address of my blog... I drew
a big hole and jumped in it for a couple of hours. Then, fixed the
link and moved on, just.
The
wider issue for me is that because I’m no longer writing longer
pieces of text on a daily basis I allowed the typo to slip through.
Not the best way to begin blogging but the best I can do is learn
from it and double check my work. It did however, make me think about
the younger generation who are increasingly using computers and mobile
phones to communicate. A recent article in the Daily Mail discussed
the fact that, “Pupils are losing marks in their exams because
standards of handwriting are declining and emoticons are creeping
into answers. Tablets and smartphones are being blamed for poor
handwriting and growing use of text message shorthand including
smiley, sad or winking faces.”
What will our youngsters' literacy be like in twenty five years time when they are pushing forty like me? Will this generation of mobile users be able to write legible sentences in the future or wiL it b a bit llk DIS? Only time will tell...
:)
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