Let my playing be my learning, and my learning be my playing. Johan Huizinga (1971) And perhaps a 40 year quote, before IF and video games even existed, perhaps sum up my perspective right now. As for the value of …
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 …
The virtual gym is not a new idea. Take a barely used classroom, add game devices and active game titles. Think competitive rowing, dance mats, cycle races, and just you wait to see what the Kinect brings this year. Add …
@TeachersJourney: “All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants.”- John Gardne http://twitter.com/TeachersJourney/status/165862105935921153 Sent with IFTTT
@mashable: This mind-blowing video shows the future possibilities of touchscreen technology – http://t.co/EnS6rU74 http://twitter.com/mashable/status/165714968774316032 Proximity, NFC, toughen glass and a good cosh of innovation. Sent with IFTTT
Last night I spent an hour or so discussing stage two of Perins School’s very exciting IF immersive learning project. With the key skills of creativity, logic and literacy highlighted, students were separated into small groups ensuring that each group …
So, two points to pick up here. At the end of the PSRE lesson I was able to push the student responses to Wordle. This automatically gave me an overview of the lesson, warts and all. To be fair, a …
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 …
