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The best teaching materials in the most practical format.
Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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My thanks to new member Yasmin Sheikh of Whitfield School in Barnet for asking why we show each question for 10 seconds before displaying the options. I realised that although we have worked like stink build opportunities for differentiation into every point of the Yacapaca process, I have never really explained them. Here, then is chapter and verse. Implicit…
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We have had a small problem recently with some students trolling the Peer Feedback system. If you are a teacher, you will know well that student empowerment can come at the cost of students being empowered to do the things they want and not the things you want. 95% of these inappropriate comments got caught by our filters and…
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My heartfelt congratulations to Rohan Chaurasia at Bangkok Patana School for becoming the first student ever to receive a 7 Dan Yacapaca badge. If you have watched your students earn their White Belt in a day and their Orange Belt in two days, you may not
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I got a thought-provoking email this morning from Michael Harrington at Batley Business & Enterprise College. In the context of the undeniable inconvenience of logins and passwords, Michael pointed out A boy logging in and doing someone else’s work is making far more progress than sat complaining he cannot login! Equally undeniable. In the past, I have
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Yacapaca ID cards are a super-convenient method to give students their ID details. Print, hand out in class, done. But until now they did not work on tablets. That problem is now solved because we have switched to downloading ID cards as PDFs – the same way we do with Parent Reports. Access them in…
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