When talking about the first term having an ‘authentic Classroom 2.0′ environment for our Project Based Learning initiative, there are 2 main areas that I focus upon.
The first, is the hardware/software environment – the physical facets that allow students interact with in order to ‘deliver’ their solutions and the second is the relationship that is [...]
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Just ordered a few iPod Touch’s to trail in school. A few kids have them already and so far no reason to cause any concern. I am wondering if having a Touch is something that kids can use in the same way they carry around a calculator. My thinking is that in order to go [...]
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Term 2 approaches, and I have to teach programming to year 10 (15/16 year olds). Flat classroom methods previously used a 5 week burst of Logo with an assessment item and then the survivors of that worked through a Visual Basic tutorial and built a simple game. I hate VB, I can do VB6, but [...]
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A student told me today how a teacher often allowed the students to play games in her class – once they had completed their worksheet. I assume this is to keep them quiet until the rest of the class has finished the ‘worksheet’.
At the beginning of the school term, I had about 120 PSPs (student [...]
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Photocopiers are in essence a scanner, largely operated by someone else. The yellow sheets are the order for student sets of prints. I suspect that if you are not a Web2.0 driven teacher, then this is a very comforting and normal photo. Of course if you are in a hurry then you use the small [...]
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