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 to this a very simple 3 statement campaign and solution from Anthony David King. 1. Simple universally recognisable truth = Kids love playing video games. 2. Irrefutable fact = Exercise improves health. 3. Strikingly simple idea = Connect exercise equipment to video games consoles. When students exercise, the game plays, when they stop exercising, the game stops. Thus .... Read more and bookmark.
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Feb 12
Favoured Tweets
@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 AKPC_IDS += "4831,";Popularity: 1% [?] .... Read more and bookmark.
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Feb 12
Favoured Tweets
@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 AKPC_IDS += "4828,";Popularity: 2% [?] .... Read more and bookmark.
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Feb 12
Immersion IF – Stage 2
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 had students with these skills. The students then played, mapped (drew the floorplan) and reviewed ‘Play ‘Things that go Bump in the Night‘ with one laptop per group (of course they can play on their phones – #TTGBITN is free on iOS and Android). The aim of this structure was to encourage discussion and .... Read more and bookmark.
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Feb 12
Even more with textwall
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 very use summary. I am sure if the Wordles was projected onto a whiteboard you could then use it in your plenary. Discussing words, differences between words and striking through words. Any other ideas? Parent Evening Second, we posted the Textwall number and email on our main hall screen during parents evening last night, giving our parent and carers the opportunity to feedback. Now, in this .... Read more and bookmark.
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