data
Data, data and yes more data–how to use it effectively?
from Why did the Chickenman cross the road? http://chickensaltash.edublogs.org/2011/06/03/data-data-and-yes-more-datahow-to-use-it-effectively/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+edublogs%2FLWmS+%28Why+did+the+Chickenman+cross+the+road%3F%29 For any middle leader and emerging senior leader Dan offers a sound list. What would you add to that list? Highlight students who are achieving and attaining well and recognise their …
Tamagotchi Grows Up
There are a fair few futurists out there in the technology world. Often, futurists focus on platforms, form factors or the technology itself with forecasts often post-dated, a good example is the Horizon Report. Perhaps I should used forecast tag …
Lulled by Hans
In this presentation Hans Rosling makes the case for the washing machine as the greatest invention of the Industrial Revolution. Do not be lulled by Hans Rosling mischief. One of the most persuasive presenters amongst the TED heavyweight, he is …
Gapminder Updates – Great Post
Hat tip to Dan Stucke for his great post on the updates to Gapminder.org …a fantastic tool for visualising a wealth of World data on lovely scatter graphs that animate changes through the years. (Dan Stucke) Like Dan, I too have …
DFSI
DFSI? Simply, Dashboards for School Improvement is a new service which provides tailored assessment intelligence capabilities to schools, through the construction and implementation of bespoke dashboard solutions. These interactive dashboards can be linked to live assessment data, providing up to …
Data
Not all data is school leaves you deflated. Stats guru Hans Rosling is inspiring and he is one of many that drew my attention to that fact that Google, is making 17 of the World Bank’s World Development Indicators available to …
Fischer Family Trust
Sitting in on CLT, its clear I need to spend some time (not sure when) reading and processing our FFT data can be used in schools. I know it will feature in my assessment of the L4L project and whether …