Why did the Chickenman cross the road?

This really made me laugh today to see that a couple of my tweets from the SSAT National Conference about Michael Gove’s talk ended up in the Times Educational Supplement this week… Check it out here:  http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6149504  

Yesterday myself and Ray Chambers an ICT teacher at Lodge Park Technology College did two school showcase presentations at the conference. We had a really great attendance to both sessions and also received some excellent feedback on the work that our students were doing. The presentation centred around games based learning looking specifically at two [...]

The importance of nurturing creativity and collaboration It was good to hear Lord Puttnam challenges Michael Gove and the UK government to consider their current view of educational practice. Lord Puttnam talked about when Gove speaks about Education he never ever ever has mentioned technology and it’s role in it. Does he just see technology [...]

Day 2 of the national conference began with some breakfast sessions, I was hoping to go the Alan November session but we had to prepare our talk for later with Ray Chambers from Lodge Park Technology College. It was great to hear from students from the Cabot federation in what they were achieving as part [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]