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Another High School Opts for iPad 1-2-1
Another High School Opts for iPad 1-2-1 TUAW: After collaborating with Apple for a year, Northern Ireland’s Wallace High School has launched the country’s largest 1:1 iPad initiative. The school’s principal, Deborah O’Hare, said in a press release that she and her staff had been letting students bring portable devices into the classroom.. I will be speaking…
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TeachMeet North West – Expanding the Audience
I had a great time on Friday night at BBC 21CC in Salford at Teachmeet NW. I presented briefly on Google Forms as per my previous blog post and listened to a wide variety of great presentations. I’ve collected all the links and chats from the evening together on the wiki. And, although it went…
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Kodu Game Lab – 3D Games Design for School
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Two Thought Provoking Discussion Starting Videos
The two following videos have been doing the rounds over the last week in the ‘blogosphere’ (I do hate that word!). But just because you’ve seen them a couple of times doesn’t mean everyone in your school has – share them with you network now. We used them both as discussion starters in Leadership Meetings…
Are half of us rubbish?
Ofsted in their infinite wisdom have deemed that half of Maths teaching in England is not up to scratch. The focus appears to be ‘teaching to the test’, now who’d of thought schools might reort to such a thing when the other option is to be labled as failing? I hope that this is a…