It was a pleasure to moderate #ASEChat again as @asober last week. Sorry it has taken so long to upload, but I have been rather busy in the last few days. I have, as usual, generated a custom timeline from…
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What routines do you use in your classroom? #ASEChat summary 10th March 2014
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: #asechat, @asober, Association for Science Education, Chat, Classroom, CollaboratEd, CollaboratEd.org.uk, CPD, Custom Timelines, Education, learning, Routines, Science, strategies, Twitter
Developing numeracy every day through group work
I was reading this great Blog post by @MiddleWeb this morning about effective group work and the first idea at the top immediately made me think of a really effective way that this could be used to develop numeracy whenever…
Numerical Reasoning Loyalty Cards
Last Thursday I was in the least technology based TeachMeet I have ever attended, #TMBristol. I was very surprised to discover the low tech theme, since @ICTEvangelist was one of the organisers, but I am glad he went for that,…
Posted in Blog, CPD Tagged with: AfL, Assessment, Classes, Classroom, CollaboratEd, CPD, Development, Education, Framework, learners, learning, Literacy, LNF, Loyalty Cards, NSP, Numeracy, Numerical Reasoning, Oracy, Recording, Self Assessment, Skills, Students, Wales
Numerical Reasoning for a medieval master mason
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…
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…
Posted in Blog Tagged with: CollaboratEd, CPD, Crater, Earth, Experiments, Graphs, Impact, Investigations, Meteorite, Numeracy, Percentages, Physics, Scale, Science, Simulation, Simulator, Skills, Space, Training
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