You’ve probably seen Quick Response (QR) Codes in a number of places by now. These are essentially squared bar codes that store information in a similar way to the price tags in supermarkets. Making the codes square allows for more…
Year: 2013
QR Codes in Education
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Science Apps – Educator’s Choice!
Wallwisher was one of my favourite collaborative tools until it began to get really buggy and break down all the time. But I recently discovered that it had a phoenix like rebirth as Padlet! And what a rebirth! The tool…
Posted in iPad Integration Tagged with: Android, Apps, Biology, Chemistry, collaboration, Collaborative, collaborators, Creative, innovative, iPad, learners, Padlet, Physics, Science, Tablets, Wallwisher
Socratic Questioning – Train your learners to ask better questions
Good teachers ask good questions, nobody would argue with that. It is also true that successful people haven’t necessarily got superior intelligence to the rest of us, but they simply ask better questions. Even Einstein said “I have no special…
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Padlet – Collaborative Notes Everywhere
Since the days it used to be called Wallwisher, Padlet (as it has now been rebranded) promised to be a great asset for educators and learners worldwide. In fact, Wallwisher allowed you to create virtual walls where anyone with the…
Posted in Web 2.0 Tagged with: Classroom, Collaborate, CollaboratEd, Collaborative, Contributions, Courses, Freeform, History, Ideas, iPad, iPhone, learners, learning, Padlet, Reproduction, Science, Smartphones, Stream, technology, Tools, Training, Wallwisher, Web 2.0
Classrooms of the future
Classrooms should no longer be bound by physical spaces, collaboration, creativity and communication should be the core objectives. Teachers no longer need to be the providers of information or even instruction. Following the ‘flipped classroom’ model these can be provided…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: Classrooms, collaboration, creativity, future, innovation, integration, learners, learning, pupil led, technology, user generated content
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