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If you’re coming to BETT (Olmpia, London, Jan 12th-15th) do drop by the Chalkface stand (PZ60, on the balcony, in the Publishers’ Village) and say ‘hi’. Site stats show that up to 20,000 people read this blog(!) so please don’t all turn up at once.
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I find this very thorough piece of research (pdf) from the Institute of Education very disturbing. After observing almost 20,000 students in over 800 separate classes, the authors concluded that, at KS2 at least, class size doesn’t make any difference. To put the research in context, it’s the latest contribution to a long debate about…
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I wrote this post a couple of days ago, but didn’t put it up for fear it would seem too far-fetched. Then I read this article and realised that I was indeed on the right track. The question you may be asking yourself isn’t ‘what can I do to help?’, because that’s obvious, but ‘what…
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This is slightly more Avante Garde than my normal posts, be warned. Liz Lawley reports on a presentation by Bill Griswold about using the backchannel in the classroom. He’s talking about university-level teaching, but do the same principles apply in schools? The Backwhat? The backchannel is the hi-tech equivalent of kids whispering to each other…
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Two weeks away and only 295 emails in my in-box; last year I know it would have been twice that. Clearly email has passed its peak as a communication medium. Still’n’all, it’ll take me a few days to clear them. Lots of interesting stuff waiting in my newsfeeds, though; more posts soon.
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