My writing online has gone through various platforms and guises over the years.
Yesterday hundreds of thousands of 16 year olds opened an envelope to find out the fruits of the first 11 years of hard work at school. College courses, apprenticeships, jobs and more rested on the grades they had been given in their GCSE exams. The night before they were already panicking that something might be…
An average US citizen on an average day, consumes 100,500 words, whether that be email, messages on social networks, searching websites or anywhere else digitally.. ..And as we sleep for seven hours a day, in practice that means that three quarters of waking time is spent receiving information, the majority of which is electronic. And…
Some reading… Like the good old days of ‘edu-blogging’ Lisa Nielsen has compiled 20 great blogs to read. Go add them to your good old fashioned rss reader and enjoy!
kottke.org: Turn your Twitter stream into your friends’ linkblog jkottke: A few weeks ago, Twitter added an option to search the tweets of only the people you follow. This is useful for several different reasons (try searching for [recent pop culture key phrase] to see what I mean) but for those who use Twitter primarily…
There has been much said about the subject of ICT in secondary schools since Michael Gove spoke at BETT. I wrote with some excitement the day after, actually praising Mr Gove for once in my life! Excited with the potential freedom and with an idea to leave National Curriculum levels behind and look towards a…
A short post to accompany a presentation at the AECRICT12 TeachMeet at Manchester Met Uni tonight. Digital Leaders is a simple but brilliant idea that has gained great traction in schools across the UK and beyond over the past 3 years. In a nutshell.. use students to lead technology supported learning in your school. Student leadership in…
Our 1:1 iPad trial is starting soon, more on that another time. I’m determined that devices will be self-managed by staff and students alike, and training time is at a premium. Our Digital Leaders will be doing lots of the work for me but I wanted a way to put together easy to follow tutorials…
Oliver Quinlan’s got me thinking out loud… …What if we spent all the money / time / efforts that our Teaching Assistants cost / provide on conducting detailed analysis of progress and then feeding this back to the teacher and learner? John Hattie’s work is hard to ignore. But Oliver’s right. We continue to be…
The new Tumblr app just made blogging even easier. Perhaps I should start doing it more frequently again?!
You’ve probably heard about the viral campaign to stop Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army in Uganda. The video has been watched approximately 40 million times since it’s release on Monday. If not it’s here: KONY 2012 from INVISIBLE CHILDREN on Vimeo. This swept through our school today, all the pupils were talking about…