I’ve always loved designing and playing games as a way of helping teachers and pupils learn new skills and knowledge. I used to particularly enjoy designing and running management games which sometimes ran for the whole duration of a 3 or 4 day residential course and were based on a simulated timescale, an imaginary location, Full Article…
Scoop.it
Those of you who use the Taccle2 site regularly will notice we have a new feature on the right hand toolbar. This pulls in the last 6 websites posted on the Taccle2 Scoop.it feed. It is an easy way to create links to pages we think teachers might find useful without having to write a Full Article…
Kids can’t use computers…and this is why it should worry you!
A thought provoking post I read a couple of weeks ago by teacher Marc Scott who says”The phone rang through to my workroom. It was one of the school receptionists explaining that there was a visitor downstairs that needed to get on the school’s WiFi network. iPad in hand I trotted on down to the Full Article…
Programming children (if only!)
Michael Gove, the UK’s Education Minister (a bit of a misnomer because he has no jurisdiction outside England!) has recently made the headlines because he has announced that all children will now learn computer programming in school. The brief consultation process showed that teachers were split down the middle on this issue with both sides Full Article…
Teacher Safety Online
One of the questions we get asked most by teachers is regarding internet safety and using social media responsibly. Of course, no teacher wants students to see pictures of him the worse for wear after a night down the pub (#awkward), swanning around on Tenerife in a mankini (we’re not judging) or Morris Dancing (now we Full Article…
Buying in Moodle
As a primary school governor, one of the issues I have been wrestling is the installation of Moodle in the school. Personally, I would consign all VLE/LCMS to the bin in favour of a more eclectic mix-and-match arrangement of social software that we can change whenever the mood takes us. Nevertheless, after a hard sell Full Article…