Happy Pi Day
Today is Pi Day! Enjoy:
edit: Actually it would be yesterday wouldn’t it? 3.14 and all. Oops 🙂
Today is Pi Day! Enjoy:
edit: Actually it would be yesterday wouldn’t it? 3.14 and all. Oops 🙂
Now this is what ICT in the classroom dreams are made of! Microsoft have announced a new coffee table styled computer that is a giant multi-touch screen. This and the new iPhone seem to be bringing multi-touch displays to the masses at last. Obviously having this technology on our IWBs would be fantastic but imagine…
I was delighted to be contacted last week by one of our Humanities staff with the following email: I presented Project 8’s new learning platform for next year, ‘The Village’ in the Humanities teachers toolbox on Tuesday. Our idea is for us to set up an imaginary world where students can create a community, developing…
This post has been knocking around my head for a while, I hope it comes out as intended. I think it began to form whilst reading Dan Meyer‘s blog post questioning the use of Web2.0 in instructing Math. I have been trying to knit together my love of technology into my teaching of Maths ever…
The Beeb have an amusing news story about a school in Kent who are going to give pupils detention if their parents park in the bus lane outside school. I can just imagine the arguments if we tried to enforce this at our school! 🙂
Digital game based learning: Minecraft maths Why didn’t I think of this? Exploring 3D shapes in Maths using Minecraft. Brilliant.
Off topic but incredibly useful! Noted is a new app that does one thing and one thing well. It opens up, you type a note, you click send and it appears in your inbox. I’ve used dozens of to-do productivity style apps and with the best will in the world I make big old to-do…