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The new Tumblr app just made blogging even easier. Perhaps I should start doing it more frequently again?!
Peter Twinning Reviews “Learning Futures” From agent4change.net: Within this discourse the role of schools is portrayed as being to prepare young people for this rapidly changing ‘knowledge age’ by developing their ‘21st century skills’, including communication, collaboration, learning to learn, and high levels of IT competence. In ‘Learning Futures’ Keri Facer describes this discourse as ‘the…
First of a two part reflection on my Easter events. I recently blogged about the Progressive Education Network after they invited me to an event at the House of Commons. They subsequently invited me to a seminar led by Dylan Wiliam at the Institute of Education in London, conveniently the evening before Becta-X (see part 2 of these posts) I was…
I have put together a list of revision topics for my Y11 GCSE class on a Google Spreadsheet. Pupil names along the top, topics down the side and a set of cells in-between with Red Amber Green conditional formatting. Once it’s finally unblocked at school (don’t get me started!!) I hope that the class and…
Today is Pi Day! Enjoy: edit: Actually it would be yesterday wouldn’t it? 3.14 and all. Oops 🙂
The team at Desmos.com have released a fantastic online graphing calculator that draws graphs as you type – it’s brilliantly clear and responsive and will be a fantastic free tool to use in the classroom. This tool will be part of the wider Desmos suite of software which aims to allow teachers to share and create quality…
Yesterday hundreds of thousands of 16 year olds opened an envelope to find out the fruits of the first 11 years of hard work at school. College courses, apprenticeships, jobs and more rested on the grades they had been given in their GCSE exams. The night before they were already panicking that something might be…