I am, as the followers of this blog will know, a fan of the brilliant spoken poetry of Sarah Kay. The video above is her poem “Montauk” and has the wonderful line in it….. “there are some things you can’t learn in New York City”. Indeed there are some things that you can’t learn in [...]
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The Google Doodle above was created to mark what would have been the 75th birthday of a man who I feel has done more than most to entertain and educate generations of children and adults…. Jim Henson. My brothers and I were hooked on “The Muppet Show” when it first appeared this side of the pond. [...]
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I came across a brilliant link on a post in Google Plus. It is a site called “Draw a Stickman” I strongly recommend that you open this site…. I will not go through it here but it is the sort of thing that children will absolutely love. The message at the end says it all. [...]
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I have been reading a really interesting report which was about a Project based in Onslow County, North Carolina, that used smartphones given to high school students to see if it would improve their mathematics. The sub-title was: Students leverage the power of mobile devices through the Project K-Nect Mobile Learning Initiative in Onslow County [...]
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I have just read a really interesting article by Beth Arnold entitled “Letter From Paris: 28 Days (Without the Internet)” . This was a really good read about a writer/blogger who tells us just how she has (like so many of us) become addicted to the internet. So much so that she says she spends hours [...]
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I think it is so important for children to have knowledge and ability to use their times tables. I found this wonderful example of a great teacher Jill Mansergh showing Teacher Trainees how to use a counting stick to learn their 17 times tables! The important things to notice are the way that she links [...]
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Yesterday was a difficult day for so many people. Like so many, I remembered where I was on that fateful day that so many people died in the iconic twin towers of the World Trade Building, in trying to rescue the victims of the horrific attack, on the airplanes that crashed into the towers and [...]
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Life can be a bitch sometimes. Like everyone else I find myself in the midst of happenings, some personal, some a bit removed, that makes you feel that it is not all like the song… “a bowl of cherries”. So, at times like these I used to bury myself in a book, hide on a [...]
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A few months ago I wrote a post about the work of Peter H. Reynolds. The discovery of this author, filmmaker and artist was a really good one for me. To quote from my original post: “ Peter H. Reynolds. If ever there was a person who was saying just what I thought and have always [...]
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