This video about the (lack of) future of work asks a lot of questions about what your students will do, if anything, when they leave education. It offers no answers, but I would take that as an opportunity for contemplation and debate.
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It turns out there is actually an answer to this question, and it’s “15 minutes”. Here is my evidence:
I looked at 6448 homework assignments that had been completed on (more…) -
Dear Nicky MorganMay I add my voice to the many congratulating you on your promotion to Education Minister.
I would like to draw your attention to an unfortunate, and probably unintended, consequence of the disapplication of National Curriculum Levels by your predecessor.
The NC Levels are a national system of criterion referencing that gives English education a significant strategic advantage. The principles are (more…)
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If you look in your gradebook for any given student set, you will see that all the results are reported in the grade scheme you chose for that set. It’s easy to take that for granted and not think about how it is achieved – at least I hope it is, because we have worked hard to make the enormous complexity of that task invisible to casual users.Although teachers very rarely challenge the accuracy of Yacapaca results, I do occasionally get asked about their (more…)
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Checkbox questions (aka “choose-n”) are our second most-popular question type. They are simple and versatile, and you can often replace a whole list of choose-1 questions with a simple choose-n. They also contain a few booby-traps for the (more…)
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