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Well I like it over here, so I might stay a while!
David is one of our greatest games designers, I was excited to hear him talk as I’ve been playing his games since the 80s! What motivates kids today? Fame, money, instant gratification. Not hard work and days of graft. So are today’s kids doomed? Games are a great weapon for education, as Dawn greatly pre-empted. Games…
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…
A ‘Technical Baccalaureate’? The education charity Edge, which promotes technical and practical learning and of which Adonis is a trustee, is working closely with the Baker Dearing Educational Trust to come up with such a qualification. Under the plans, seen exclusively by Education Guardian, pupils aged 14 to 16 would spend 60% of their time…
I’ve spent the morning travelling back in time to my childhood in 1986 via the BBC Domesday Project! This picture has me intrigued as it’s taken near my school and must be children within about a year of me at school – how quickly the memories fade, I can’t recognise any of them! I should probably recognise…
Inspired by Simon Job, this is a post about how I surf the torrential tidal wave of information that is out there on the Internet, how I filter it down into a manageable stream to consume and how I save the best bits for later. I have been using Google Reader for the last 3 years or so…
Inspired by my former colleague Mr Hill, I have decided to approach my time with 9X1 a little differently this year. To cater for the range of ability and learning styles in this class I am going to offer them a platter of resources to learn from and a clear checklist of objectives for each…