Applying teaching strategied, techniques and ideas.
We need to move beyond the idea that an education is something that is provided for us, and toward the idea that an education is something that we create for ourselves. It is time, in other words, that we change …
3b Unit2: Speaking and Listening We are debating the Pros and Cons of Social Networks in our speaking and listening Controlled Assessment and I want a tool to promote debating skills leading up to the assessment. This was not meant …
Back in 2011 – I used social bookmarking tool Delicious to capture and share useful learning resources. It captures my first exposure to retrieval practice and wider reading / links and intention to “follow up.” Purdue Newsroom – Research finds …
If a child can’t learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn. Sandra Day O’Conner
Students who understand intelligence is malleable rather than fixed are much more intellectually ambitious and successful. Carol Dweck from Stanford University Our abilities are not set in genetic stone. They are soft and sculptable, far into adulthood. With humility, with …
Today I took our reading of The Hillsborough Ballad one step further using much loved but under utilised tool, Voicethread. One of the first points I will to make here is that Voicethread has always supported FREE education accounts, continues …
It has taken until 9pm this evening to realise that I we missed an a powerful opportunity ‘capture success’ and raise student expectations this afternoon at school. We held an assembly for the Year 11 students, collecting their early entry …
Reading more about the pace of technology adoption, Microsoft presented research that stated 71% of the 1,000 16 to 18-year-olds surveyed agree that they learn more about technology outside of the classroom than inside it. My initial thoughts, do we …
