I’ve come up to Chester to the first #TMHistoryIcons today, another variation on the Teachmeet theme. My presentation is on 5 quick low and high tech ideas for extending pedagogy here. I’ll embed the slides below, and the relevant links under that. Flipcharts! Have a look at Ian Dawson’s excellent Thinking History site for loads […]
Computational Thinking and History – Part 2: The Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website, Big Data and History
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, I spent some time over the summer holidays completing the Google ‘Computational Thinking for Educators’ course. With the final deadline for the final project looming I spent some time this evening pulling together my notes and ideas into a final project plan. The idea is for a three lesson […]
Computational Thinking and History (Part 1)
Over the summer I started Google’s ‘Computational Thinking for Educators‘ course. With the deadline for the final project submission looming, I’ve been reviewing what I wrote and putting the finishing touches to my final project, which I’ll post tomorrow. If you’re not sure what ‘Computational Thinking’ is, it’s a set of thinking tools to allow […]
What might Digital Literacy / Competence look like in terms of lessons? (day 8)
While we’re waiting to hear what the Welsh Government’s response will be to the Donaldson Report, it was noticeable how many companies were tweeting within 24 hours of the report’s publication that they could provide your school with a solution to ‘Digital Competence’. Best of luck to them, although you might want to ask them […]
What questions can you ask if everyone can see the answers? #28daysofwriting
Image credit: Discussions. CC Licensed on Wikimedia Commons Cross posted on Staffrm.io One of the first tools we get teachers starting with on Hwb+ is the discussions tool. It allows teachers and students to start and contribute to discussions in their class site (in primary) or their subject / yr group site (in secondary). […]
Giant mindmaps!
I’ve come to the end of the A Level course with my yr 13s, and we were discussing last week how they wanted to spend our last few lessons. We agreed that we needed to recap the main ideas of the course, but rather than me rattle through it, I revived an idea from a […]
A handful of quick ideas
Well, I blinked and half term vanished. There’s a pile of half finished posts here (along side the half finished lesson plans, powerpoints, marking and ironing), some of which I might get to soon. In the mean time I thought I might cheat and post an email I sent to one of our ex-PGCE students […]
… And we’re back
Happy New Year! After two days of complete and utter shell shock I think I found my teaching feet today. So I thought I’d put a quick blog post together highlighting a couple of things from the week in the vague hope that it might become a habit 1. In ICT we’ve introduced a […]
Throwing a History party
I mentioned in the last post about building in a longer and deeper immersion phase at the start of my Yr 12 History course. As part of that, last week, my classes came to a History Party The activity is modelled on this Ian Dawson one, which he suggests can be used at the end […]
Tweeting Historical Events
I watched with interest the twitter stream coming from @titanicrealtime– especially their use of hashtags to try and get a sense of the various perspectives of different people involved in the sailing and the accident. This follows the innovative use of Twitter by the National Archives using the cabinet papers to tweet as the UK cabinet during WW2 […]