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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Sometimes you want collaboration, sometimes you want to be sure that students will work alone. One way to do that with multiple choice is to draw questions from a question bank at random present them in a random order randomise the positioning of the answers allow a short fixed time for each answer Next year,…
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Citizens Online is campaigning for every child to have a laptop, funded by the taxpayer. I absolutely support universal internet access, but not this route to it. Laptops have too many drawbacks. The are heavy, expensive, ergonomically unsound and very vulnerable to theft and damage. The proponents for laptops for schools are making two perceptual…
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At last, I’ve had time to actually read the Tomlinson Report. This is my feedback to the Working Group. I’ve organised it under 5 headings of particular interest to me. Numbers in [ ] are paragraph numbers from the report. The unified vision Tomlinson proposes four-level diploma. It has a common core of key skills…
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The Big Idea of the Tomlinson Report is to replace coursework assignments with a single portfolio, produced by the student over the course of two years. When the report came out, I expressed some scepticism about this which remains, but I have got interested in the whole area known as e-portfolios. The fundamental idea: give…
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