Image Credit: Thinking… Please Wait, by Karola Riegler. CC Licensed on Flickr. Following last week’s posts about Computational Thinking across the Curriculum both Glyn Rogers and Anthony Rhys raised some concerns about whether it was something we should be aiming for in schools. Glyn in particular expressed concerns that many subjects have their own […]
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 […]
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 […]
… 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 […]
History Walk
As part of the school’s enrichment program we put together a History Walk for a group of yr 11 students. We walked them from school into town before they took a trip up the river for an organised tour and a visit to the two museums. I’ve included the notes that I put together for […]
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 […]
Rebooting in practice #2 – Yr 8: Tudor Life
I’m conscious that I’ve been talking in the abstract in many of my ‘rebooting’ posts, so I wanted to try and be a little clearer about what I mean and how some of the things I teach have changed this year. This is the second of several posts that will hopefully outline how I’ve changed […]
Infographics – Assessment idea
One of the ideas I scribbled down at the start of the year for a project was infographics. Information graphics or infographics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge. These graphics present complex information quickly and clearly, such as in signs, maps, journalism, technical writing, and education. With an information graphic, computer scientists, mathematicians, […]