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  • The new ‘flow’ test template helps students to think through each question more carefully

    18/05/2014

    If your students tend to act before they think, you will love the way we have just upgraded the very core of Yacapaca. The quiz template now has ‘flow state’ management.

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    The problem:

    Instead of thinking the question through, weaker students, especially, click on the (more…)

  • Which programming languages interest teachers?

    12/05/2014

    Which programming languages interest teachers?

    I put counters on the links in this lunchtime’s email about the Computing Syllabus. Unsurprisingly, (more…)

  • Computing update

    11/05/2014

    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 (more…)

  • Using Peer Feedback statements in plenaries

    03/05/2014

    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.”
    * I think this should have been “next”.

    This is a fantastic idea. It should be easy to train your students to screenshot particularly challenging choices and (more…)

  • Smarter, simpler Key Concept analysis

    29/04/2014

    Today we launched some nice improvements to the Key Concept analysis. (more…)

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