Month: October 2011
51 Ways to Introduce Learning Objectives
During the very dynamic seminar from Claire Gadby’s – ‘Proving Pupil Progress’ a colleague posted question, well, it was more of a request really. If you know of more exciting ways to introduce a lesson objective then I would be …
The Guardian Tech Podcast
There is a fair chance you are not yet subscribed to The Guardians Tech Weekly podcast so here I am recommending it. Last week Aleks Krotoski chaired a discussion on the teaching of computing and coding with David Willetts MP, …
Tech City Talk – Skills and Education
There is a fair chance you are not yet subscribed to The Guardians Tech Weekly podcast so here I am recommending it. Last week Aleks Krotoski chaired a discussion on the teaching of computing and coding with David Willetts MP, …
Triptico
I first uncovered Triptico when I was looking for ‘fridge magnet’ type activities for teaching poetry last year to my Year 10s. More recently, I found my way back to David Riley’s (@David_Triptico) Triptico website via a tweet, to find …
Working with Bruizer
Recently, our Digital Leaders responded to a competition set by the ‘Get Set’ network and The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). In a nutshell, our students designed a range of infovids explaining Olympic 2012 …
Skeptical Customer and the Pencil Salesman
When did the debate start on technology start? Skeptical customer: “I’ve begun seeing more and more of these “pencils” around, but they don’t seem very useful to me.” Pencil salesman: “Oh not true, they are very useful indeed. Combined with …
Get Them Thinking
First we had ‘Proving Pupil Progress’ and now I am back tracking to a post I just didn’t get finished, entitled ‘Get Them Thinking.’ Perhaps more relevant to my English and PSRE classes, some of these ideas are applicable to …