Steve Jobs narrates the crazy ones
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA
Steve Jobs narrates – The Crazy Ones
A fitting tribute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rwsuXHA7RA
Steve Jobs narrates – The Crazy Ones
A fitting tribute.
For the first time in about four years I won’t be visiting BETT this year in London. For the un-initiated BETT is an enormous educational technology trade show / conference held at Olympia in London each January. Things I’ll miss: Bumping into other educators I know from Twitter etc. Attending some of the fringe events…
Ed Balls has, well, sorry, had the balls to ditch SATs for 14 year olds in England. I can’t quite describe how elated I am! Ignoring last years fiasco, these tests have narrowed the curriculum, the teaching opportunities and pupils enthusiasm for the subject for years. The league tables that accompanied them often narrowed a…
Schools across the UK are currently getting to grips with the new performance management framework that is being introduced nationwide this school year. I’m a ‘Main Scale’ teacher at the moment, and one of the benefits of the new system appears to be how ‘Threshold’ will be tackled. Previously you had to apply to pass…
There has been much said about the subject of ICT in secondary schools since Michael Gove spoke at BETT. I wrote with some excitement the day after, actually praising Mr Gove for once in my life! Excited with the potential freedom and with an idea to leave National Curriculum levels behind and look towards a…
My Promethean Activboard is great, I need a new projector, but I’m a big fan of the boards and the software. So I’m quite excited that there is some new software incoming. I’m really pleased that I’ve been offered an early download of the software. Canny marketing work by Promethean offering the software to bloggers…
Does Gove Get Games? A strangely positive sounding report from the great Edge Magazine quotes Gove speaking at The Royal Society, in particular referring to the excellent www.mangahigh.com that Marcus du Sautoy has had some input in. “I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for maths and science teaching and…