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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: Commentary
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The ever thoughtful Ian Usher just blogged about the challenges of introducing online reporting to parents. This is an issue much in my mind, as we are in the early stages of planning exactly this feature for Yacapaca. It will be part of the free service, of course, and completely automated once set up. Ian…
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That’s the most ever in one month. I am not going to be too hasty to claim a trend, though. Several of these are actually quite old, but have only just hit ‘maturity’ i.e. the requisite level of real usage to become eligible for publication. I’m not sure if this is artificially inflating the figures…
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A whole page of “how to…” videos, courtesy of Tony Vincent. Ah, brings back happy memories. Only kidding. I found these via Glen Moses’s rant about how “mobile phones can be used for cheating” is a really naff excuse for banning them. Anyway, here’s my favourite, both for the elegance of the method and the…
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The first computer I ever had was an Osborne 1 with a 5″ screen framed by two whopping great floppy disk drives. I didn’t actually own it; I blagged it from Osborne on the promise of including an illustration of it in a Chalkface pack. By the time it was due for return, they’d gone…
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Several years ago, I presented my ideas about the benefits of online assessment to one of the major exam boards. I’d better not say which. They told me bluntly “we won’t switch to online exams until the risk of a scandal is lower than it is with paper-based exams.” Gentlemen, that day has come.
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