Whoever taught Suli Breaks such eloquence must feel very proud…
…so why isn’t eloquence taught as a formal discipline? It is far more (more…)
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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
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How to add, remove and move students to and from your student sets.
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- Keep it short.
Students will do 5 minutes per day quite happily. Keep your assignment to a single quiz, at least until you have feedback from the students. - Explain the principle to your students.
They many not be used to homeworks that enforce a daily routine, and some will moan like heck at you that they can’t do it all at once. - Demand, and enforce, the first attempt on the first day.
If the majority of your students leave homework until the last minute of the last day, they will get caught out and may feel you have deliberately trapped them. - To track progress, sort results by Attempts.
Assignments > Results > Results (beta) > click on the top of the Attempts column. - To check completion, sort results by Mark.
Assignments > Results > Results in detail > Sort by Mark, and look for those who scored >80%.
- Keep it short.
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If you are a fan of Mastery Learning you are going to love our latest feature.
When assigning, you will find the setup dialog has changed slightly. There is a new item “Mode”.
When you change this, you see (more…) -
If you had to put one date on the Industrial Revolution, it would probably be 1776. This was the date when James Watt installed his first Atmospheric Steam Engine; an engine that for the first time did more work than the horses required to feed it with coal.It changed everything. Industrialisation led to huge increases in personal wealth and opened new possibilities for ordinary people that even kings could not previously have aspired to.
James Watt’s engine came the better part of a century after the first steam engine patent had been issued (to Thomas Savery, in 1698), but looking back, we see this was the inflection point.
In the same vein, I nominate 2014 as the date of the computer revolution. Yes, 2014, just three years ago. Why? Because (more…)
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