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…
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Comparing the old and new Science Curriculum in England
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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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Using Voicethread in the classroom
Voicethread is unparalleled for allowing a group of people to comment on a picture or piece of text using either text, audio or video. On the iPad or iPhone it lacks the display of the desktop version which gives an…
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Lesson Planning with iPads
Of fundamental importance is to be able to answer the question ‘What value are the iPads adding to learning?’ iPads are simply one tool, albeit a very powerful one, that needs to be used appropriately. Sticking them in as a…
Using Socrative in the Classroom
Socrative in the classroom Socrative is a Free (at time of posting) system that works acros platforms and mobile devices that allows rapid assessment for learning either as a voting system or by more detailed test reports that can clearly show…
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iPad Integration – Using Book Creator e-books
A very simple application of using the iPads in Art to create an image that defined ‘Schooldays’ The image was captured using the camera and then edited using the free Photoshop APP Then it was imported into Book Creator and…
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