The Garden of Cosmic Speculation is at Portrack House, near Dumfries in South West Scotland. It is a private garden created by Charles Jencks. The garden is inspired by science and mathematics, with sculptures and landscaping on these themes, such as Black Holes and Fractals.
(via therationalradical)
Source: reckon.posterous.com
A QR Code Periodic Table of Elements. Love this use of QR codes. I’ve accused them of being elitist url shorteners before but this is a great use. Science is an obvious subject for their integration. Have heard of Science departments adding QR codes to their equipment linking to web pages explaining how they should be used.
How have you used QR codes?
Source: Flickr / periodicvideos
Does Gove Get Games?
A strangely positive sounding report from the great Edge Magazine quotes Gove speaking at The Royal Society, in particular referring to the excellent www.mangahigh.com that Marcus du Sautoy has had some input in.
“I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for maths and science teaching and I know that Marcus has been thinking about how he might be able to create games to introduce advanced concepts to children at a much earlier stage.”
Fingers crossed the Tory Government are starting to understand the potential and importance of IT within education.
Source: next-gen.biz
Assistant Headteacher from Manchester, UK. This is a space for my thoughts on education, technology and more. Has for now taken over from my old blog at www.mrstucke.com
