Searching safely November 14, 2009
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Pass this link on to your parents via a newsletter.
Internet Facts October 18, 2009
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Want some posters for the ICT rooms?
This website has some images that contain internet factoids that are interesting and would create nice posters.
eg. If you printed the internet …. it would take 57,000 years to read at 24 hours per day
You might want to checkout other links like “13 useful things to print out” – I liked it anyway
How to design e-Learning October 13, 2009
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A really interesting interview with Cathy Moore. A few extracts to sum it up ….
- We’re not designing content , we’re designing activities then getting the content to support this.
- Think about the behaviour and not the knowledge otherwise e-learning can become an information dump.
- Put students in a compelling situation then provide information as needed.
- Often e-learning is like traditional presentation but even more painful
- Exposing pupils to information does not change their understanding or behaviour.
- Pupils go through the course and we’re done – it doesn’t work like that in the real world.
- It’s hard to measure and control.
Overall 6 minutes long and well worth a listen.
(oh and I like the application as well – anyone know what it is?)
Comment July 11, 2009
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“I’m getting tired of hearing people continue to ask for the evidence that technology helps students learn. It doesn’t matter. We know — that good teachers help students learn. We need technology in every classroom and in every student and teacher’s hand, because it is the pen and paper of our time, and it is the lens through which we experience much of our world.”
David has an excellent way of summing things up. Here is another where he refers to ‘techies’:
“they are excited by the “light”. I, on the other hand, am excited by what we can shine that “light” on…”
Tough GCSE Exams? May 21, 2009
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This comment on a recent forum had me wondering if any readers felt that this year the exams were either particularly tough or hard:
re OCR Short course GCSE
In the nine years that I have been teaching I have never seen a paper (foundation and higher) as hard. Some of the questions were ambiguous and there was definitely a cross over between short and full course (e.g. system life cycle and validation checks etc). Just hoping that the rest of the country found it difficult, that way the grade thresholds may be lower.
Graphs that show nothing April 14, 2009
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Have you ever come across pupils who use excel to draw graphs that show nothing – like a scattergraph to show ‘age’ against ‘tutor group’.
Well here is a lovely picture that you could use when to come to discuss the issue.
New criteria for GCSE in ICT April 3, 2009
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OfQual have released the new criteria for GCSE for first teaching from 2010.
This is the document that exam boards will use to design the revised qualifications.
From my quick read I see a much tighter focus on the national curriculum and explicit references to problem solving, groupwork and new technologies.
It’ll be interesting to see the response to this.
http://www.ofqual.org.uk/files/2009-03-gcse-ict-subject-criteria.pdf
Manage Information Overload March 30, 2009
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David Warlick is a good speaker because his advice is practical and do-able.
This leaflet is about how to grow your own personal learning network that can manage the massive information overload we all suffer from.
If you’re looking for something to do this Easter then this may be worth a read.
If you’re in need of a catchy snippet then how about this one:
Think like a teacher – teach like a thinker
Lovely idea for research November 11, 2008
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It’s probably a little late now but file this away for next year ..
Photograph the local war memorial the ask pupils to take a name and to discover their story.
This will provide an opportunity to look at massive online databases (such as the war graves commission).
It may also be possible to look at the German perspective (in Google use a search like
“World War 1″ + site:de
(this will give you only sites with de (ie Germany) in the domain)
As an aside .. I have a great collection of WW2 posters – Make a comment and I’ll email them to you (or maybe provide a link to download).
