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.
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So says the title of another BBC article on the cyber-bullying YouTube problem. This worries and saddens me as I can see the quick result of this will be even more aggressive and restrictive censoring of the internet by school network managers. There is so much excellent material available on YouTube and other similar sites…
#RunningInSquares 12th Jan – 14km, 1⛰️, 1📍& 8⊞s
Back to back snow days – what more could you want? Busier trails today that I could actually run. Distance: 14km. New squares: 8. New peaks: 1. New Trigs: 1. Looking back over Greenfield to Alderman’s. SD9903. Climbing up Alphin felt a little like Everest today. Such lovely conditions brought a queue of people…
The Future Of ICT
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…
Influencing Policy? Part 1 – PEN & Dylan Wiliam
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…
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#LWF11 Dawn Hallybone – Games Based Learning in Primary
Disclaimer: I would consider Dawn a friend, thanks to many interactions via Twitter & Teachmeets etc even though we’ve only met a handful of times.. I won’t go into great detail about the work she has done as her blog has details of it all. LWF Bio. Dawn discussed using Nintendo DS & Wii with the pupils are so engaged…
Scratch
I came across the excellent Scratch programming tool via an interesting discussion on Classroom2.0. I’m planning on investigating it a little more in the near future, there are a wealth of mathematical possibilities for it from algebra, logic, geometry, probability etc etc etc. However I’ve been thinking of a quick way in to it for…