Carl Sagan
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known. Carl Sagan I felt this was a very suitable, educational quote to mark the anniversary of Carl Sagan’s death. I didn’t know a lot about Carl Sagan when I first heard Pale …
Digital Learning
Technology, teaching and teachnology
Relationships
If you don’t know what the passions of those in front of you are then you’ll never know how to teach the people in front of you. Marc Prensky, taken from a Ewan McIntosh blogpost
Games Based Learning
Games based learning is my focus for 2011 and we have already started to plan two gaming opportunities between English and ICT. One for storywriting and games design, the other on a designing a game concept with a social benefit …
The Finnish Article
This evening I was reading the reflections to the recent PISA study. Although commentary was predominantly from American educators, you could fairly easily substitute the US centric views for the UK. As with most review Finland is the aspiration. What …
links for 2010-12-16
Montage Amazing mashup tool from Microsoft. Info docs in a flash. (tags: microsoft gallery news rss worksheets)
links for 2010-12-15
Not so ‘techno-savvy’: Challenging the stereotypical images of the ‘Net generation’ – Digital Culture & Education Project-Based Learning Video from Common Craft Microsoft's iPad Response Coming in 2011 British Council Film Archive's videos on Vimeo Here are all British Council …
Maths Input Panel and Worskheet Generator
I have one Innovid left to screencast over Christmas and I think I have just stumbled upon the topic. Our E-Resources Manager shared the Maths Input Panel with me and from his conversations with the Maths Department, it was clear …