Following from my previous post on Minecraft and Medieval Castles I have been thinking about other ideas to support numerical reasoning through the theme of medieval castles and using Minecraft. This time I started from a question I created in this…
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Numerical Reasoning for a medieval master mason
Posted in Blog, CPD, iPad Integration Tagged with: Area, CollaboratEd, CPD, Experiences, Fractions, Framework, Games, Gaming, iPad, Literacy, LNF, Maths, Minecraft, Numeracy, Numerical Reasoning, Percentage, PowerPoint, Questions, Ratio, Resources, Support, Tests, Training, Wales
HiCortex Brainstorming
Today I came across a fantastic new tool for online and collaborative brainstorming. It’s name is HiCortex Brainstorming and the highly energetic and inspiring Roger Hiscott (@rhncafc) told me about it today. I have already tried and loved DropTask, that comes…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: Brainstorming, Classroom, CollaboratEd, collaboration, Collaborative learning, CPD, HiCortex Brainstorming, iMindMap, learners, learning, Linoit, Padlet, Professional Development, School, Tools, Training Experiences
Comparing the old and new Science Curriculum in England
With the “gap” year off the curriculum to give schools time to review their existing provision and adapt their curriculum with the now published Curriculum 2014 that will become statutory from September 2014 I thought Heads of Science would find…
Posted in CPD, Uncategorized Tagged with: ASE, Biology, Chemistry, CollaboratEd, CPD, Curriculum, KS3, New, Old, Physics, Range, Repeatability, Science, Subjects, Working Scientifically
Paired Reading with Puppet Pals
If you are a teacher and you own an iPad you will have heard of a great app called Puppet Pals, especially if you teach in Primary School. One fun way I used Puppet Pals was with my four boys, 2,…
Posted in Blog, iPad Integration Tagged with: Animation, Books, Children, CollaboratEd, CPD, Creative, creativity, Education, Family, iPad, learners, learning, Literacy, Oracy, Paired Reading, Parents, Puppet Pals, Reading, Skills, Stories
Peer Coaching Interview with Les Foltos
On the 18th February we will moderate the Welsh Education Twitter chat #addcym and bring with us a very special and highly experienced guest, Les Foltos (Director of Educational Innovation at Peer-Ed). Les is a worldwide authority in Peer Coaching…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: Broadcast, Coaching, CollaboratEd, CPD, Education, G+, Google+, Hangout, Interview, learning, Les Foltos, On Air, Peer Coaching
Minecraft and Medieval Castles (with a pinch of Numeracy too)
This video is an example of how you can use Minecraft on iPads/iPods to stimulate learners’ creativity and ask them questions about topics they are learning. Children could work collaboratively in small groups, like this example, and the teacher could…
Posted in Blog, Implementing, iPad Integration Tagged with: AfL, CollaboratEd, CPD, Formative Assessment, History, iPad, iPod Touch, Literacy, LNF, Minecraft, NSP, Numeracy
Impact Calculator – A great simulator
I was at TeachMeet Cardiff last night and among other great presentations Paul Roche showed a great simulator he developed with his team called Impact Calculator. What does it do? Well, as the name suggests Impact Calculator works out various parameter from the…
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Custom Twitter Timelines – great fun and extremely useful
When I first heard about the new Twitter Timelines that can be customised I immediately thought #asechat and other Twitter #hash tags chats. These custom timelines are a Moderator’s dream for a number of reasons, but you can use them…
Tellagami and the Writing across the curriculum strand in the LNF
I’ve recently come across a really interesting app for developing literacy across the curriculum called Tellagami and I think it would be perfect to develop writing across the curriculum in the Literacy Framework in Wales and in particular the Writing…
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Peer Assessment with the Literacy and Numeracy Framework (LNF) and Aurasma
The video below is about Peer Assessment with LNF and it shows how a young learner can easily use the statements in the LNF skills to give meaningful feedback to his peer. In this case a Yr2 pupil has written…
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