In the last six months we were very privileged to work with British Council Malaysia and some great educators at SMK Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Klang school on the development of an Innovation Clubs resource pack for secondary schools in Malaysia.…
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Innovation Clubs in Malaysia
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#asechat summary 28/03/16 – What Science Clubs do you run?
We were glad to host #asechat tonight and we have tried to capture the most interesting threads in the Twitter Collection below. The chat was a bit quieter than usual, but that was to be expected on Easter Monday. However,…
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Pluto and Charon – endless opportunities for numeracy and literacy
With more and more data and amazing images arriving from New Horizons every day, there has never been a better time to look at the two body system Pluto-Charon and embed engaging literacy and numeracy opportunities in your science lessons…
Space to engage – #asechat summary 25/05/15
It was again a pleasure to moderate #asechat this evening and, as usual, the collection of ideas and resources suggested by the educators who took part were really good and useful! I have created a Twitter Collection that summarises the…
Numerical Reasoning with SIG-24
Last Monday we had the great pleasure of working on Numerical Reasoning with SIG-24, a group of 11 schools headed by the tireless Janet Hayward (Headteacher at Cadoxton Primary School). The schools brought some learners from their Year 4 and…
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Educational Research – why should we bother?
This post is a couple of weeks overdue, as it is an attempt to summarise my recent visit to the ASE Conference in Reading. The title of the post might startle you a little bit, but it makes sense, because…
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The Accessible Classroom: How Technology Helps Students with Disabilities
Technology is something that every student will need to be familiar with when they enter the world of work, but being aware of the tools that are available and how they can be used might be particularly important for students who have…
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Never memorise something that you can look up
The image and quote alone are genius, just like the man who pronounced those words and this post could be terminated here, but I will add something more to put in context what inspired this blog post from the image and quote. Albert…
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CollaboratEd landed in Italy
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,…
National Digital Learning Awards 2014
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…
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