I am halfway through reading “Teach like a Champion” and already I know it is one of the most accurate, relevant and interesting books of my whole teaching career. In it, the author Doug Lemov has examined the top teachers in a catchment area in the US, and has carefully analysed and dissected their strengths [...]
Posts Tagged ‘communicate’
The Classroom Agenda App on iPad
May 27th, 2010 by admin
Seth Godin recently wrote a blogpost which was an open pitch really for someone to build an app that would make presentation no-linear, explaining he felt it would be the App to allow the Ipad market to flood. More recently, he asked for an App that ran a meeting, like a universal Agenda.
Tags: agenda, app, classroom, communicate, evolve, ipad, seth godin, share
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My iPad in the classroom: First thoughts
May 19th, 2010 by admin
Through some careful work combined with serendipitous luck, I have managed to get a 32GB iPad ahead of the UK launch. I understand from a friend that in New York, stocks were limited per store, and that the staff were also insisting on US passports to purchase them, such is the demand/control of launch by [...]
Tags: apple, classroom, communicate, feedback, gadget, ipad, kit, media, new, productivity, teaching
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Working blind to change
May 5th, 2010 by admin
With the majority of my time in my current job teaching ICT, I see a vast array of skills and abilities on display. Some children appear to grow these talents instinctively (if that is possible), whereas others put in the hours at home to make dynamic leaps in terms of progress. Using MSN for example [...]
Tags: change, communicate, ICT, ideas, resistance, students, theories
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Violent computer games make your kids negative: Discuss
February 10th, 2010 by admin
This is a response to a Channel 4 program, Extreme Parenting, in which a segment was given over to a study of Violent games. A group of boys were randomly divided in two, and asked to play either a football game or a violent game. Their heart rates were monitored during this. They were then [...]
Tags: communicate, computer games, Experiment, extreme parenting, media, research, students, TV review, violent games
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Trips with Twitter
May 14th, 2009 by admin
Is there a way to keep anxious parents informed on a school trip, especially those whose children have never been away from home before, while at the same time allowing the trip leaders to not have yet another thing to do? We believe there is. For our school trip, we set up a Twitter account. [...]
Lesson Themetunes
April 20th, 2009 by admin
When you hear French music in the supermarket, does your mind start, even unconsciously, considering French wine? Apparently it does, even if you deny it influences you directly. (See MindHack for a neat introduction to the research). So what impact does this have for our learning consumers? Just like Proust’s Madeleine cake extract, hearing certain [...]
A comparison of offline and online discussions among children, in relation to the factors that contribute to dominance in these areas
March 18th, 2009 by admin
An investigation into what factors which contribute to dominance in physical and online discussions, and are there areas which allow these factors to cross over?
Tags: communicate, discussion, dominance, E844, edmodo, investigation, offline, online, OU, research, reticence
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