New Learning Ideas - curated by the Curriculum Design and Development Committee. TEACHING + LEARNING. Securing appropriate education provision for children with autism spectrum disorders. The bitter root. FrontPage. Due to the success of our previous TeachMeet, join us for our second inspiring and informative event. Wednesday 25th April 2018 4.30pm - 6.30pm Hitchin Girls' School, Highbury Road, SG4 9RS A great chance to network with fellow teachers and be motivated by a series of short presentations on their experiences, ideas and successes. The evening will provide you with the opportunity to share with colleagues from a range of schools, in varying contexts. Refreshments and fantastic raffle prizes to be won! #nhtateachmeet If you wish to speak at our event please email admin@nhta.info We hope to see you there.
If you want to truly engage students, give up the reins. This is a summary of the talk I delivered at the Norfolk ICT 2011 Conference, expanding on my TES editorial back in January. During the final half of 2010, I asked more than 1,500 teachers around the globe two questions: what are your happiest memories from learning at school, and what are your least happy experiences?
When I do the "reveal" of what I think their answers will be, every workshop has a "but how did he know? " reaction. It's more akin to an audience's response to illusionist Derren Brown than to the beginning of a day of professional development. For teachers' answers are always the same. But while a third of teachers generally remember "making stuff" as their most memorable and happy experience at school, we see few curricula where "making stuff" and letting students "follow their own ideas" makes up at least a third of the planned activity. Design Thinking: the creative industries' framework for relentless creativity We then follow these four stages of problem-solving: The bitter root. Annual Leadership Conference - Books on Display: June 13th- 15th Birmingham ICC Seizing Success 2012. The Whole Child Initiative: Engaged. Learning Behaviour.
Effective Teaching Methods — Strategies & Activities. This area will help you explore the fascinating world of learning and teaching. You'll discover lots of useful ideas, and what you see will stimulate your own thinking about how to teach more effectively. It contains two sub-areas: Of course, there is a connection between teaching and the ideas-and-skills being taught. Therefore, some strategies & activities for effective teaching also appear in the other areas: School Options, Effective Learning, Thinking Skills, Nature of Science, Origins Questions, WorldViews.
This home-page for Effective Teaching is Search the Website. TeachMeet East 2012. Saturday 19th May 2012 Bluebell Primary School (near UEA), Norwich 'Doors' and Light Refreshments:- 1:30pm 2pm- 5:45pm (approx) Free to attend, and tons of fun! I you already know all about TeachMeet, then use the form below, or follow this link, to sign up for your totally free ticket!
Can you help spread the word about TeachMeet East to help make TeachMeet East 2012 the biggest yet? Why not sign up to share by volunteering for a 2 or 7 minute presentation? Not from East Anglia? "An Afternoon full of brilliant ideas"- TeachMeet East Atendee "The best Saturday afternoon I have had in a long while! " "By teachers for teachers. Learn something new, be amazed, amused and enthused! TeahMeet's are unique events run for teachers, by teachers. TeachMeet is a unique gathering of teachers and education professionals to share inspirational ideas, techniques and resources. TeachMeet is an informal and enjoyable gathering. Click here to sign up to attend or here to present. What people said last time! Present. 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020. "Within the decade, it will either become the norm to teach this course (high school Algebra I) in middle school or we'll have finally woken up to the fact that there's no reason to give algebra weight over statistics and IT in high school for non-math majors (and they will have all taken it in middle school anyway).
" - Shelley Blake-Plock 21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020 by Shelley Blake-Plock Last night I read and posted the clip on "21 Things That Became Obsolete in the Last Decade. " Well, just for kicks, I put together my own list of "21 Things That Will Become Obsolete in Education by 2020. " 1. DesksThe 21st century does not fit neatly into rows. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. Editor's Note: A "classic" from the Teach Paperless blog and previously published December 2009, Shelley Blake-Plock is a self-described "artist and teacher . . . an everyday instigator for progressive art, organization, and education.
6 Things Our Kids Just Plain Won't Get. This article is for my three kids. They will, very soon, start seeing the world through adult eyes, and a lot of things about my generation will just plain not make any sense to them. I'm going to attempt to explain some of it, so that they don't dismiss an entire generation of people as rock-fuck stupid.
For instance, the generation coming up behind us most likely won't understand ... Many of the Phrases and Pictures We Use Every Day Do you use Skype or Yahoo Messenger? Specifically, the "Call" and "Voice Call" icons. I know my kids have never used the old microphone that Yahoo Messenger uses to represent "Voice Call" because I raised them, and therefore can safely say than none of them are news anchors from the 1950s. For instance, if you weren't alive during the early 90s, how are you supposed to know what the hell that thing next to the "Save" button on every single program in existence is supposed to represent. A Transformer talking out of the side of its mouth? Do you like cartoons? Home - Welcome.
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The Diaspora Project. Bloom's Taxonomy. Creativity, ideas and pedagogy — creativity, ideas and pedagogy. iNet educator conference. Learning Technology Trends To Watch In 2012. Sharebar As the technologies of the 21st century evolve and mature, we become the beneficiaries of exciting approaches for designing learning experiences. The convergence of informal and social media learning, combined with the explosion of smartphone and tablet use, is having a huge impact on how we think about training and education. So while last year’s list of learning technology trends to watch in 2011 is still viable, there are new and important learning trends to follow and explore this year.
Here are the ones that stand out to me (in alphabetical order). Backchannel Several years ago, audience members at presentations and workshops began communicating with each other using their smartphones and laptops. One dedicated practitioner of using the backchannel in this way is David Kelly, who collects the communications regarding an event in one place. Content Curation Digital curation is nearly a necessity for dealing with information overload. Developing in the Cloud Flipped Learning. Hapara – Google Enterprise Solutions. Free technology teacher training videos for teachers. How do we make our schools fit to face the 21st century? | Education | The Observer. The Observer panel, chaired by Yvonne Roberts: Guy Claxton, professor of learning sciences; Sue Street, inner city school teacher; Melissa Benn, journalist and campaigner; Rachel Wolf, education adviser; Peter Hyman, teacher and former political strategist.
What is education for in the 21st century? Rachel Wolf The best thing that schools can do now is make sure people have the core of knowledge and skills and ability to decide what they want to do with their lives. Guy Claxton Education means learning to think for yourself, learning to make and repair friendships, learning to see other people's points of view, learning not to be frightened of uncertainty or difficulty. Unfortunately the system, whether it be in a free school, an academy or a comprehensive school, seems to comprehensively neglect the development of those qualities in the obsession with exam results. Peter Hyman I think we're preparing children for the middle of the 20th century and not for the 21st.
Peter Hyman I agree. Embedding ICT - For added flavour, liberally sprinkle some ICT. Attachment disorder: The families struggling to stay in control | Society. On a good day, Amy Robson's 14-year-old stepson James is just like any other teenage boy – he'll happily regale you with the latest footie scores or challenge you to a game on the PlayStation at his home in Cumbria. But on a bad day, the same teenager has been known to threaten classmates, attack teachers and even defecate in the classroom. Two years ago James was diagnosed with attachment disorder, something that occurs when the attachment between a child and a care-giver is not formed during early childhood. It was brought on by his chaotic start in life, when he lived in a violent household with an alcoholic mother. James was eight by the time his father was granted custody of him. "We hit a crisis point [last year] as we just weren't getting any help," Robson says. Studies have shown that children displaying attachment problems in early life usually go on to have behaviour problems.
Hayley Morgan is concerned that her 13-year-old adopted son Jon will go to prison. Creating a Game-Based Online Class. One of the things that I like the most about the field of instructional design is the opportunity to think about that hard to quantify meta-level where you are teaching someone how to teach someone else. The most effective way to do this is to have your learner live the experience that you are trying to teach them to create. Unfortunately, the medium of a blog post does not permit me to teach you how to create a game-based curriculum by experiencing it. This adds a layer of complexity to my task, but one that is not insurmountable. It is my hope that you can follow these easy steps to design and implement your own game-based class in the near future. Step 1: Define your Objectives This is exactly the same process you should undertake at the beginning of planning for any class. Make a list of all of the objectives you would like your students to reach during the course.
These should include: Be as specific and detailed as possible in your objectives. Create Augmented Reality Layers Without Coding. Schools We Can Envy by Diane Ravitch. Finnish Lessons: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland? By Pasi Sahlberg, with a foreword by Andy Hargreaves Teachers College Press, 167 pp., $34.95 (paper) In recent years, elected officials and policymakers such as former president George W. Bush, former schools chancellor Joel Klein in New York City, former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee in Washington, D.C., and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan have agreed that there should be “no excuses” for schools with low test scores. Nothing is said about holding accountable the district leadership or the elected officials who determine such crucial issues as funding, class size, and resource allocation. The belief that schools alone can overcome the effects of poverty may be traced back many decades but its most recent manifestation was a short book published in 2000 by the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., titled No Excuses.
Second, from an American perspective, Finland is an alternative universe. Teachercast. Teach Parents Tech. Why ICT must be a key part of the school curriculum « Malcolm Bellamy's Lifelong Learning Blog. Posted on December 29, 2011 by malbell I have just read a really interesting post by Dan Barker in the Huffington Post United Kingdom edition.
The post is titled “Decline and Fall: The UK’s Shocking IT Education Record”. It follows the recent Ofsted report on ICT education in schools. In the post, Barker, a professional software developer, bemoans the fact that U.K. schools have a terrible record when it comes to teaching ICT skills. This is a young I.T. professional who is only too aware of the place that ICT skills have in the current world economy.
His final paragraph is perhaps the most concerning for us: “The good news is that the problem is apparently now moving up the political agenda, with Michael Gove, the education secretary, admitting recently that he thought that computer science needed to be taught more in schools. Like this: Like Loading... Filed under: Digital Technology, The 21st Century school Tagged: | ICT, Information and communication technologies in education, Ofsted. Twitter in the Classroom. There are so many GREAT educators on Twitter and it’s great to connect, learn, and grow from them. One day my class and I tweeted about Greece with someone IN Greece.
Now that I have completely embraced Skype in my classroom, I’m realizing even more that global learning adds a whole new wonderful layer to an ordinary day in the classroom. I started thinking, could a Twitter account help us connect to other classrooms, keep our conversations going, learning about weather, cultures, differences, and similarities around the world? I could use my own Twitter account. Since I’ve started it, I’ve been following other classrooms and even started a list of Classrooms that Tweet. Uses for Twitter in the Classroom: 1.) 140 a day Learning Log: Ask a student to tweet “What did we learn today?” 2.) 3.) 4.) 5.) 6.) 7.) Tips: 1.) 2.) 3.) 4.) I’m really just starting this journey with my class and I can’t wait to see where it takes us. 4/3 Fun. Dexteria | Home. Professional Development with the Experts Through Twitter - Finding Common Ground. If Schools Are Broken, What Is the Solution? Answer: Urban School Reform–WRONG! « Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice.
Here we go again. Another 24/7 media frenzy over the direction of school reform has erupted over David Guggenheim’s documentary “Waiting for Superman,” Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s gift of $100,000,000 to Newark public schools, and the resignation of Chancellor Michele Rhee’s from the Washington, D.C. schools. Oops! Also the urban superintendents’ recent “manifesto.” But why “here we go again?” Because: 1. We forget, however, that U.S. schools are incredibly diverse and decentralized (100,000 schools, 14,000 districts, 56 million students, 3, 000,000 teachers).
Policymaker talk amplified by media hype and the blogosphere make urban school reform–”schools are broken and need to be fixed”–the norm for all school change. Pause for a moment and reflect on the flawed logic of those who tar all public schools with the urban brush. 2. 3. Enough of the criticism, Larry, what do you propose to avoid the “here we go again” syndrome?
Like this: Like Loading... Imagining the Future of the School Library. Imagining the Future of the School Library. Are Libraries Dying or Thriving? One of the towns I used to live in is apparently raising two million dollars for renovations to its library. I told my mother (an active supporter and board member of her public library) that I thought this was a waste of money as the role that libraries play in society has been/will be diminished. I suggested the town is better served spending its money on a public space like a park or garden. My mother was disgusted. She informed me that that public libraries are being used as much, or more than ever before. I was pretty surprised to hear all this because I’d assumed that libraries were a dying breed as people increasingly access information online from home, or opt to sit and read at a Barnes & Noble instead. While I don’t for a minute doubt my mother’s facts on library use, given the choice of allocating money either toward a park or toward a library, I would still opt for the park.
How about you? The Original Internet: Still a Great Place to Visit. The Super Book of Web Tools for Educators. Diagnostic teaching materials. The future of libraries, with or without books. Educational. The Digital Dilemma for Picture Book Publishers. Assessing Children's E-Book and App Market at TOC Bologna. Ewan McIntosh | Digital Media & Learning. 100+ Google Tricks That Will Save You Time in School - Eternal Code - StumbleUpon. EduApps. Www.scva.ac.uk/pdfs/Sainsbury_Centre_INSET_programme_SM.pdf. In the eye of the new world.