During the very dynamic seminar from Claire Gadby’s – ‘Proving Pupil Progress’ a colleague posted question, well, it was more of a request really. If you know of more exciting ways to introduce a lesson objective then I would be …
There is a fair chance you are not yet subscribed to The Guardians Tech Weekly podcast so here I am recommending it. Last week Aleks Krotoski chaired a discussion on the teaching of computing and coding with David Willetts MP, …
There is a fair chance you are not yet subscribed to The Guardians Tech Weekly podcast so here I am recommending it. Last week Aleks Krotoski chaired a discussion on the teaching of computing and coding with David Willetts MP, …
I first uncovered Triptico when I was looking for ‘fridge magnet’ type activities for teaching poetry last year to my Year 10s. More recently, I found my way back to David Riley’s (@David_Triptico) Triptico website via a tweet, to find …
Recently, our Digital Leaders responded to a competition set by the ‘Get Set’ network and The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). In a nutshell, our students designed a range of infovids explaining Olympic 2012 …
When did the debate start on technology start? Skeptical customer: “I’ve begun seeing more and more of these “pencils” around, but they don’t seem very useful to me.” Pencil salesman: “Oh not true, they are very useful indeed. Combined with …
First we had ‘Proving Pupil Progress’ and now I am back tracking to a post I just didn’t get finished, entitled ‘Get Them Thinking.’ Perhaps more relevant to my English and PSRE classes, some of these ideas are applicable to …
Following on from Claire Gadsby’s seminar on Friday, I share these important statistics, just released by the DfE on ‘Looked after Children.’ 65,520 children were looked after at 31 March 2011, an increase of two per cent on 2010 and …
