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.
Why Not Tumblr And as a counter-argument, Gina Trapani makes a case against tumblr. Export and ownership is important in this throw-away world that we live in.
This post was written as part of my day job for Community Brands / Assembly: https://assembly.education/measuring-changing-disadvantage-nfer-report/ NFER: Investigating The Changing Landscape Of Pupil Disadvantage This post focuses on the latest report from the National Foundation for Educational Research – Investigating The Changing Landscape Of Pupil Disadvantage. Within the report, NFER highlight the increasing number of disadvantaged…
I’m a little gob smacked and a little jealous at the news from the BBC that Knowsley council on Merseyside plan to abolish the classroom and timetable as we know it and turn all 7 of their secondary schools into learning centers personalised to each pupil. It seems that this sort of revolution in how…
Well tomorrow is the first day at my new school and I’m really looking forward to it. Things have been a little quiet on the blogging front as the last term wound up and a well earned rest was had over Easter. Hopefully once settled in my new school I will throw myself back into…
I attended a SSAT training day today about ensuring Maths progress for all. This included a 30 minute section about using IT within Maths. During this Paul Hynes from the SSAT demonstrated an augmented reality program that the Trust are currently working on. For those new to the term Augmented Reality it involves overlaying virtual…
Well you can’t have missed the fact that Google has finally unleashed Google Wave to 100,000 lucky testers, and with it a tsunami of hype. I was lucky enough to be one of the 100,000 first wave. Enough of the puns, if you want a bytesize explanation of what Wave is then this video is…