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Out of all the support requests we get in any given day, a good 50% will fall under one of these ten headings. So I would like to drop into your mind, before you even hit one of these problems, what the answer might be. I deleted an assignment in error Assignments tab -> Show
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I’ve just picked up a post on LinkedIn (here) that labelled the the above sheet as “Developing reflective learners”. Really??? To save your eyesight, here are the two student comments from the bottom of the sheet: I think that I did well on talking about the formation of ox-bow lakes and identifying river processes. However,…
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September is here again, and teachers across England are returning to school. Refreshed from a much-needed summer break, they are ready to draw the very best out of the children in their classes. By half term, though, they’ll be knackered again, and by December they won’t know which way is up. Again. Why? It is…
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Controversial blogger Donald Clark has boldly announced that “Gamification does NOT work” in education. What he misses is that education has been gamified for the last 1400 years. Here is how that game works, and how we can…
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Following on from my rant about paper-based exams, Ty Goddard of EdTech UK asked me for some current examples of online assessment. Spoiled for choice! Although I could find no country that bases its end-of-school qualification entirely on an online process, there is a quite astonishing range of online solutions to different assessment problems. Here…
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