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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
Category: elearning
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We launched the Revision Access system later in the term than I would have liked, but now that it’s up and running there is finally some user data to start garnering insights from. It’s certainly working; the log shows students revising through the half term, some of them with considerable diligence. However, I see some problems that…
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The idea behind ‘flipping the classroom’ is to video your didactic presentations and have the students watch them at home via YouTube or similar. It’s a great idea: research has shown that video leads to greater recall because students can pause, rewind, etc over bits they did not get the first time. What can be…
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I met Christina Jenkins at a Futurelab event last week, and she pointed me to the School of One pilot project: School of One encapsulates a lot of the stuff I’ve been ranting about for years – freeing teachers up to actually teach, breaking out of the class-of-30 mindset, using computers to do what…
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Three years ago, I predicted that the iPhone, and phones like it, would soon become everyday educational tools. Where are we up to with that? Having spotted this on the Orange website, I’d say we are now only a year away. If Justin Bieber is endorsing a phone, then it must be cheap enough to…
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