I was put on to a great resource for practicing binary conversions today which I had to share – it works on a kind of Tetris game basis. See how you get on. It’s great fun! Check it out by clicking here. Cheers!
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1. No two days, classes, students, are the same. It goes in many ways to what Coe said in his recent report: “Ultimately, the definition of effective teaching is that which results in the best possible student outcomes. There is currently no guaranteed recipe for achieving this: no specifiable combination…
I’m liking the updated sections in the App Store that have been broken down by different learning stage. Have you seen them? They’re broken down by key stage and then within each of those sections they’re broken down further by learning activity. What is also nice is to see the…
My presentation for #TMStockport was quite a difficult choice. Knowing who else was speaking and the topic of use of technology, I wanted to do something on purposeful use – yes… I know… but I had an inkling that their host @ICT_MrP would probably cover that, so I went for…
It’s that time of year again. It is staggering that this is the 11th Edublog awards. So much learning and sharing has taken place over those 11 years in the education community. I learn so much on a daily basis from all of the brilliant teaching professionals who share their practice….
If you haven’t noticed, whilst I love technology and its propensity to enhance learning, for me it always has to be purposeful. I’ve written at some length about it previously but I thought a handy checklist might be, well… handy. So I made this. Please forgive the brevity of the…
I am extremely excited to have been nominated for the UK Blog Awards 2015. I have been nominated for Education blog of the year! Thank you to the people who nominated me for this. It is exceedingly humbling. I have always seen this space as a place to offer help…
What a day today on #BettChat. Lots of engagement and ideas flowing. To help keep a record of the discussion, I took the tweets from the chat and added them to a Storify which you can read and check out below. It was as always a fast and furious debate…
Right. When someone asks you to write about your #teachinghighlight (thank you @ictevangelist) the first thought is “Ooooh. Thank you. Erm…what have I enjoyed? No. Not humble enough. What challenges have I helped my students with?” This reaction surprised me. The teacher ‘put yourself second’ double-take is normal teaching behaviour….
As you may have seen in my recent post I am moving out of the classroom to be able to work and support schools in a number of different ways. To help with this move I’ve just built a new website to showcase the sort of support that I am offering…
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