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The title sounds like a nasty affliction – but I actually want to describe a great lesson! I was looking for a nice challenge for my Year 9 Computing class to continue developing their understanding of variables, if statements and loops – ideally moving on to nested statements and loops. As ever Twitter came to…
I have the pleasure of teaching two great Year 9 classes this year. One is a fabulous Maths group that I have taught for the past two years, another is an ICT taster class (we have brought taster options into Year 9 this year, allowing students to get a taster of KS4 courses – this…
Theon Elliot Stucke meet the World. World, meet Theon (Taken with Instagram)
Guided Access is a great new accessibility feature on the iPad that allows you to lock an iPad (or other iOS device) into one application and even restrict which parts of the screen can be interacted with. Some of our staff have been concerned about handing their iPads over to learners, conscious that their confidential…
parislemon: What it looks like to descend to Mars. In color, no less. (via Seldo) Incredible really. Amazing what a bit of Science and Maths can achieve. (Source: https://www.youtube.com/)
nedhepburn: Dead at 82, Neil Armstrong.
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…