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Does Gove Get Games?
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…
Safeguarding Data Analytics Best Practice Summer 2022 (Data Trends)
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/data-trends-safeguarding/. Introduction In this article, our Analytics expert Dan Stucke looks at the current trends in safeguarding in schools in the UK, including the publication of “Keeping Children Safe in Education” 2022 (KCSIE), discussing good practice in using data to…
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Well as the blogging (and Twittering) hiatus shows I have been busy busy busy! Having made a good start to my new role as Director of e-Learning circumstances have changed a little. Our school is currently waiting on a decision as to whether we will merge with another local school and become an Academy. As…
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As net-books continue to outpace the rest of the PC industry, prices falling and specs improving, are they ready for prime-time use in schools? I have dallied with eeePCs back in the day, I was impressed then, unfortunately school didn’t back that up with a permanent wireless network and they have been little used since. …