http://www.tes.co.uk/teaching-resource/Hard-To-Teach-Secondary-Maths-Using-ICT-6047747/ Love this video – both because it provides practical ideas you can copy and also because it illustrates some of the tensions and divergences of opinion within maths teaching. In particular, it raises the issue of how much hand-calculating is necessary – if any. My personal opinion veers towards the ‘no hand calculation’ end Full Article…
The Human Race
Age: 12+ yrs Overview: By investigating the most current scientific material regarding human evolution, learners are asked to use their researching, predictive and reporting skills to create a simple web-based thesis on the ‘likely’ future stages of human evolution. Description: The teacher must decide how much initial information to provide, but it’s probably a good Full Article…
The Marvels of Comic Life
We have mentioned Comic Life in several other posts but we think it is an absolute basic in a primary teacher toolkit. For us, the biggest attractions of using something like Comic Life are that: Children who are not very artistic or find difficulty in writing love being able to produce a piece of work Full Article…
Great e-learning teacher blog!
Have just come across an amazing website for teachers http://sharpjacqui.blogspot.fr/p/about-me.html. In fact, it’s not one website but a whole series of blogs by Jaqui Sharp, who is heavily involved in Taccle-type stuff in New Zealand. Have just written to her to see if we can link up. They are very content-rich, bursting with ideas and written Full Article…
Photos in schools
Just got this post in from Ian Addison’s blog. I think it is one of the best blogs around and well worth following. Ian is a primary school ICT co-ordinator and knows EXACTLY what it’s like to walk the talk in the classroom every day. Today he is talking about the downside of the digitally Full Article…