You will no doubt have heard the claim that the average pupil only gets one minute a day of personal attention from a teacher. I’ve quoted it often enough, but have long-since lost touch with the original reference. Time to hit Google. Embarrassingly, I couldn’t find it. What I did find, however, was anecdotal but…

Konrad Glogowski is my all-time favourite educational blogger. Partly this is because he posts so rarely that he’s easy to follow, but mainly it’s because he’s a teacher not a techie. Konrad’s latest post is a real treat. He’s talking about how he responds to his students’ writing, and gives an example of a lengthy…

A review this morning from Ste for Formative Assessment in Applied Business for the Double Award GCSE says “Average, lose the dodgy animations”. What interests me isn’t the fact that it’s a negative review, but rather that it pretty obviously comes from a student. When we put reviews on the site, I expected a certain…

It’s been a slow week for change on Yacapaca; just a couple of announcements: Membership is now past 3000 teachers and 85,000 students. I’m well chuffed with that! Miranda has revamped the Yacapaca Wiki. The authoring section in particular has been rewritten. By the way, if you are looking at the wiki and don’t like…