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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: Commentary
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Ofsted reports that VLEs, which started coming into schools in 2000, are “still in the early stages of development”. You can say that again. Most teachers won’t touch them. A couple more quotes: We found that the exploitation of VLEs at curriculum level resembled more of a cottage industry than a national technological revolution. …used…
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First they came for the communists, I remained silent; I was not a communist. When they locked up the social democrats, I remained silent; I was not a social democrat. When they came for the trade unionists, I did not speak out; I was not a trade unionist. When they came for the Jews, I…
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It feels like the end of an era. Google has become so dominant in our lives, that you may need reminding that when it first appeared its spartan looks were quite shocking. Now, white backgrounds are almost de rigueur. Or they were until today! Look at this skin that just appeared on my Google Mail!…
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The author of some excellent Yacapaca assessments (who has asked me not to name him, for the moment) recently asked to pass my eye over a very complete set of offline teaching materials he had also created. He said: …over the last few years I have sweated blood on producing a whole set of these…
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I get asked this soooo often by incredulous people who seem unaware that Google is free, YouTube is free, Bebo is free…. Here is the answer, from the far-more-eloquent-than-me Cory Doctorow. (if you cannot view the embedded video, go to http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4454381456832593071 )
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