Programming Principles
I like these analogies and principles for programming basics, nice talking points for teachers using Code Academy as a starting point for teaching programming.
I like these analogies and principles for programming basics, nice talking points for teachers using Code Academy as a starting point for teaching programming.
Education is awash with data. League tables and accountability measures have driven an obsession with headline figures, KPIs and metrics. The associated data collection, presentation and analysis processes consume time throughout the system. Do we collect too much data? Do we wait too long to act upon it? This post is the third of our Challenges…
FFT have just published an analysis of repeat suspensions and exclusions across the life of students who started primary school in 2008 & 2009. The headline news is that both suspensions and exclusions are heavily weighted towards certain ethnic groups, those of the different Black, Gypsy/Roma & Irish heritage are around twice as likely to have been…
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…
It’s exam time again already, and with it came the usual request from my Head of Department for any innovative ideas of how we could approach revision / lay on extra things for the Year 10 & 11s before there first exam next month. This prompted a memory of a newspaper article about a school…
Well today the sun shone down on me and I got a chance to experiment with ‘spaced learning‘ as planned. photo credit: tamakisono Initial gut instinct is that it was a success. Pupils were engaged in the entire process, made clear progress throughout the lesson and thoroughly enjoyed themselves. At this late stage in their…
“Blue sky thinking” Thanks Frank for tagging me to participate in the meme passion quilt. It’s the first time I’ve been ‘tagged’ in one of these things and I appreciate it 🙂 The picture I chose is a photo I took at Glastonbury Festival some years ago, I got lucky lying by the Jazz stage…