Perseverance
Involved in interviewing today I heard a lot about values. Values about oneself as a teacher and about education as a system. Interestingly, I did not hear much about the values we try to imaprt onto our students. This may …
Challenge
Learning with challenge · Teaching with challenge
Slow Writing
It started with David Didau’s (@learningspy) blog post. BIF! Then onto David Riley (@David_Triptico), Triptico creator and education app designer. BAM! (The man’s talent are for hire BTW.) Then it was back to my Year 8 ‘Creative Writing’ class for …
Kodu – that visual programming thing
Kodu – if you have not heard about it – you need to. Here at Hamble College our ICT Department has been planning for its introduction for just under a year. Improving the graphics cards, in-house Kodu learning and training. …
Tick Tock Clock for Quest
Following on from Byron Bay, the students have been competing against one another. They set the challenge by how fast you could escape the game. In an effort to create an official timer – I used the in built time …
Pupils learn how to ‘fail well’
I have a somewhat fickle relationship with failure. Both personally and professionally. Personally in that I understand embrace it within my own value system. I see its value in my own achievements. I routinely try out new ‘things’ in my classroom and …
ipadio: Textwall.co.uk
So there is certainly more to learn about using Textwall.co.uk in the classroom. It is clear from Holly impromptu interview (I spoke to her in her after school art workshop) that the textwall experiment was well received in our Yr11 …
#ICT500
Let’s not walk the path well trodden. Whether here at #ICT500 or there at http://schoolstech.org.uk/about/ the discussion and debate of what and why ICT continues. There are valued observations to take from each of these arenas; Nick Jackson has wrestled …
ipadio: Hexagonal Learning
I am not going to write a SOLO taxonomy thinking post, I do not know it well enough, I haven’t I explored it far enough nor taught with it in mind. But I will. However the hexagonal tessalating idea, now …