Science on Stage 2011 The story of how CollaboratEd ended up training Italian physics teachers has its origins in Copenhagen during the 2011 Science on Stage Europe (before CollaboratEd was born) where I had the good fortune of representing Britain. In Copenhagen,…
You must have heard something in the news about the Rosetta probe and its chase of Comet 67P. News items like this one offer tremendous opportunities to develop a number of skills, but in this post I want to focus…
Today we had a nice surprise when a parcel arrived for CollaboratEd. In fact, the project we submitted at the Hwb National Digital Learning Awards this year in the Commercial Category was highly commended by the judges for the way it bridged…
I got the link to the embedded tool below from @mdfcaw and I immediately thought this would be a great resource to use as a numeracy activity. For example, you could get learners to compare the rate at which interactions happen on…
It was again a pleasure to moderate #asechat last night and it was, as ever, a fast paced stream of contributions from a wide range of science educators. There were some excellent suggestions and the discussion was definitely dominated by…
Managing behaviour with ClassDojo Have you ever tried ClassDojo as a behaviour management tool? It is fun, easy to use and it offers quick lines of communication with parents, so what more could you ask from it? My boys’ teachers use ClassDojo for…
This is a lovely demonstration that Keith Gibbs did last night in Chipping Campden school. You cannot see the elastic band hitting the paper at normal speed, but when I rendered the video digitally at 1000 fps using the SLOPRO…
It was again a pleasure to moderate #ASEChat as @asober tonight. The topic was “What does innovative science teaching look like for you?”. Below is a custom timeline generated from the chat and embedded in this Blog post. I really like custom timelines and if…
The GROW model is one of the best known and most effective frameworks to help coaches frame powerful coaching questions for their learning partners and it is formed of four stages. These are GOALS where the coach is helped in…
Today I had the privilege of working in Chipping Campden School, one of our excellent Training Centres, on Peer Coaching. The SLT is seeking to introduce a Peer Coaching programme in the school and I had the good fortune to…
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