Posts Tagged ‘simple’


Favourite Theories: Broken Window Syndrome

This theory is lifted straight from Malcolm Gladwell‘s book The Tipping Point and is based around the principle that if people see broken windows, they see a lack of care. The smallest things matter, and if the smallest details are taken care of, real care is shown. A very good friend of mine works in [...]

Organisation – at a snip

I’m a big fan of scissors. I have always loved them, even as a small child. They are my favourite item of stationery equipment, and to my mind cutting paper with a new pair of scissors is akin to the spoon-in-the-instant-coffee-seal pleasure.

Amazon warehouse logic in your classroom

A simple experiment in my classroom confirmed what I believed for a while – the eyeline is the buyline in the classroom as well as the supermarket. A box of tissues normally lasts about a week, but moved away from the front of the classroom, one box lasted three weeks. Whether there were more sniffs [...]

Criteria for assessing the benefits of new social tools within an education context

It is incredibly hard to keep up-to-date with the growing number of intersting, intelligent and diverse social tools available under the umbrella of Web 2.0 applications. When meeting something new for the first time, it can be so overwhelming that it is hard to see any useful connection to education. At other times, the tool can be so suited to education, that more subtle uses can slip through the mental net.

Media: Lesson Credits

Offering a set of credits in your lesson makes a wonderful finish to the lesson, is something that can be on-going throughout your time in class and is incredibly simple to do.



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