Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

Sir Ken started by saying we are living in extraordinary times, an education revolution he gave an example of a project called Moonx with 25 year olds who have no degrees but have learnt skills from gaming attempting to send objects to the moon. Sir Ken began to speak about the Education revolution. I was [...]

School showcase: Ridgeway School – The Wirral 4 areas of focus: Personalisation Curriculum flexibility Blended learning Beyond the classroom What does personalisation mean? Meeting more needs of more students to a fuller extent! Ridgeway school spoke about the long and winding road from ‘good’ to ‘outstanding’ to make the step up we had to do [...]

Who owns the learning? I was so excited to hear Alan speak as I have followed him since I started teaching nearly 10 years ago. Alan started by saying it really isn’t about technology but about control, who takes control of it? Who manages it? Who owns the learning? Is it the students or is [...]

Every child has talent! 3 core themes of the conference: 1.Entrepreneurship 2. Creativity 3. New technologies Claire started by sharing that employees want: Good communicator, hard work ethic, team player, proactive, push themselves out of comfort zones and be emotionally robust. What about enterprise skills? Similar – honesty, leadership, risk takers etc Claire shared that [...]

Thank goodness it’s Friday, to help brighten up your day and to help you with your planning at weekends, I will be posting a weekly web based idea that will take just 1 minute of your time to read about. If you like what you read then why not try it out in your lessons [...]

It was a great opportunity to catch up with @stevebunce and @simfin and finally meet @caroljallen and @davidmiller_uk. It was a great and diverse range of speakers at the conference, up first was Valerie Thompson Chief Exec at the E-learning Foundation who talked about I was quite taken aback from the information about ‘digital poverty’ [...]

Photo from http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk It was great to see last week that one person has bought 150 copies of the Ebook to give to teachers at a National Educatonal Conference and also that the news appeared in the Plymouth Evening Herald in the last couple of days. You can still get a copy yourself by visiting [...]

Just an update on the conference that is happening at the end of the month. I am so excited to have the privilege to present at this years conference with Ray Chambers who you will know as @lanky_boi_ray. More details can be found here on the The Schools Network Blog: http://blog.ssatrust.org.uk/blog/index.php/2011/11/16/games-based-blogging-to-raise-standards/ Let me know what [...]

Thank goodness it’s Friday, to help brighten up your day and to help you with your planning at weekends, I will be posting a weekly web based idea that will take just 1 minute of your time to read about. If you like what you read then why not try it out in your lessons [...]

Fantastico Triptico! This is absolutely brilliant! Triptico – http://www.triptico.co.uk/ If you do anything today then make sure you go to this website and download Triptico which is a free (at the moment so hurry) interactive whiteboard tool that you download to your desktop and so can work on any whiteboard. Inside Triptico there are 23 [...]