I’m pleased to announce that from this term I’ll be working with Portal Training to lead an inset course, from their base in Cardiff, exploring ways to get the most of digital opportunities. The course I’ll be running is designed to be platform neutral (laptops, tablets, phones of any make and operating system are welcome) […]
Stepping out pt 1 – Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference – March 16th
I’m delighted to announce I’ll be speaking at the Teaching, Learning and Assessment Conference taking place at Berkhamsted School on Saturday 16th March. The event has been organised by Nick Dennis, who has put together a line up of amazing speakers (and me) for the amazingly small sum of £40. It’s also on a Saturday, […]
Ten things #10 – Embrace Failure
This is the final of ten posts that develop some of the ideas I mentioned in my presentation at TMClevedon — This still sounds wrong somehow, doesn’t it – surely we should be encouraging success in our schools, not failure? Well, yes…. But, if we praise success above all else we can help develop a […]
Ten things #9 – Project Based Learning
This is the ninth of ten posts that build on my talk at TMClevedon last month — I’ve written before about Project Based Learning and the lightbulb that went on in my head when I first read about it. Like any idea it’s easy to do badly, and as David Didau pointed out, we must […]
Ten things #8 – No hands up
This is the eighth of the ‘ten things’ I discussed in my talk at TMClevedon — This was one I’d read about but wasn’t much taken with, until I saw the Classroom Experiment. And what I saw in those classrooms, with one or two students dominating, suddenly looked dangerously like my classroom. So, I’m going back […]
Ten things #7 – Stop giving grades
This is the seventh of the ‘ten things’ I discussed in my talk at TMClevedon —- One of the most shocking things for me from the ‘Inside the Black Box’ research was the impact that adding a grade to a piece of work had. Not only did it lead to 0% increase, it also reduced the […]
Ten things #6 – Success Criteria
This is the sixth of the ‘ten things’ I discussed in my talk at TMClevedon — Part of the effective feedback loop means that not only do students know what they’re doing well / not so well, but where they are in terms of their learning and how they can take the next step. One of […]
Ten things #5 – Collaboration
This is the fifth of the ‘ten things’ I discussed in my talk at TMClevedon — One of the ways in which technology allows us to do genuinely different things (as opposed to a digital version of the same thing) is in the way that we can collaborate. If you ask my Mum the best […]
Ten things #4 – Make videos
The fourth idea I shared at my presentation from TMClevedon was to make videos. It has never been easier to make videos and then get them online. I’m going to cover a few quick ideas. 1. Make videos of student work using something like Animoto as a way of showing off what students have produced […]
ten things… #3 Write blogs
It’s never been easier to start your own blog, with a range of free tools out there. Blogger still seems to be a popular one, as is posterous which has the advantage of allowing you to blog by email. I use WordPress as a blogging platform, which has a few more bells and whistles than […]