I have been asked to go into a local secondary school tomorrow and talk about blogging. I decided that I would try and show the students what blogging was all about by actually writing a blog entry. So here goes… By blogging you will be able to communicate with people of like mind and interest… [...]
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Richard Byrne has produced an excellent Issuu presentation called “How To Do 11 Techy Things in the New School Year” . If you know of anybody who wants to get to grips with this “new technology” in education thing, then this is a must read. His blog, Free Technology For Teachers is an excellent read [...]
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This Beatles song says it all… “Do what you want to do….. Go where you want to go… Think for yourself because I won’t be there with you” It came to mind today as I was working with a young student on problem solving in maths. She got to a particularly sticky problem that [...]
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The video above is a reading from Carl Sagan‘s 1995 book “The Demon Haunted World“. It is the part of the book where he reflects on his education and his early interest in astronomy in particular and science in general. Sagan is scathing about his education. He could not understand why he was taught things [...]
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I was sent an e-mail today from The National Schools Partnership. This is an organisation that has developed a number of free resources for schools. I have received regular e-mails about their resources and occasionally have passed these on to schools. Today though I decided to investigate the resources in greater depth. Searching down the [...]
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The fight was worth it. The Educational Fixer leant back and admired the sheet of paper in his hand. The paper stated that every school in the land was now perfect. The students in every school were all A students and had achieved previously unimaginable results in their tests. It had not been easy. There [...]
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On Thursday, my wife was on her laptop when I heard the strumming of a guitar. I asked her where the sound was coming from and she said that it was from the playable Les Paul Google Doodle I have seen these wonderful “Doodles” on many occasions and this latest one was such an innovative [...]
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Yes I know there’s a load of rubbish on YouTube, I know that there is a lot of inappropriate material that you would not want children to see. There is also some absolutely wonderful stuff. Anyone who has read this blog will know that I have used YouTube videos in my posts on numerous occasions. [...]
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I am more and more interested in the use of video in education and the way that video is the literacy of choice of the digital native. This video by the inspirational organisation Maya (who are pioneers in human centred design) uses animation to explore the complexity of the exponential growth of computing power [...]
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I have discovered a new free application called “Spaaze” . This is the best and easiest system to collect information from the web (and to allow others to collaborate with you in the process) that I have yet found. I signed up very easily using my Google account and was very quickly able to put [...]
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