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Category: Yacapaca
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If you are teaching Computing next year, you might like the recent update to our KS3 Computing syllabus section. I have added a topic list based on the Computing at Schools Working Group specification. I know this is not the final document you will be teaching to, but given the
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My thanks to Beth Evans, of The Queen Elizabeth’s High School, Gainsborough for this idea. Beth wrote “I did screen shot one question that came up whilst I was testing a quiz I had written and used it as a plenary to the previous* lesson as part of the critera setting for the next task.” *…
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I only introduced Judo-style coloured belts on avatars as a stop-gap, but it proved wildly popular with the students – so much so that
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I believe I can now truthfully claim that Yacapaca is the only true formative assessment service for schools. Here’s how our new peer-written formative assessment process works: 1. After approximately one question in ten, students are presented with the screen below. They are asked to write a feedback statement for other students, in 150 characters or less…