‘One of these’ being a 3D printer! Have recently been to an exhibition where there were maybe 30 stands demonstrating and selling 3D printers. Was fascinated by how different they all looked – I mean, a laptop is a laptop is a laptop, whether they have Mac styling or Acer styling or Samsung styling, they Full Article…
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Maths: angles and Keynote
I was looking for a useful subject to introduce the iPads in our Maths lesson. So I chose “angles”. The pupils got a worksheet for each team of 3 to 4 pupils. I got pupils together in teams that would not have chosen each other! I knew that the iPads would be motivating enough to Full Article…
Mindomo
Building and rebuilding concept maps and sharing them with others is a great reflective activity. The Mindomo application can facilitate this habit of reflective thinking, while it can play a social role by discussing and building shared maps. From my experience, concept maps in science, mainly with abstract concepts, centre attention on a few important Full Article…
Simulations
Click to Run I believe that the use of animations and simulations, like those from PhET, enables the manipulation of parameters and variables in different combinations, and facilitates the questioning of some issues, the systematic study of the causal relationship between variables, the formulation of alternative hypotheses and basis for conclusions. The exploration of a Full Article…
Drawdio
Father Christmas brought me a great new toy and I spent most of last weekend playing with Gethin, Ffion, Gweno and Bronwyn (diolch plant!) and the DRAWDIO ‘pen’. Drawdio is another amazing bit of kit from Jay Silver and Eric Rosenbaum from MIT Lifelong Kindergarten, the same stable as Makey Makey which we featured in Full Article…
Movies with Moovly
Moovly is another neat way of making fun animations, presentations and posters. Record what you want to say then use the ready made clip arts to illustrate. You can upload your own pictures too. Use it to record explanations of theories or concepts in physics, to describe chemical processes or to tell some science history Full Article…
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