Thanks Andria Johnson for this fun interactive introduction. After pressing the “>” button, give it a minute to load; it’s well worth the wait.
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Great teachers spend less time marking and more time teaching
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A teacher I’d better not name just told me that Yacapaca was blocked in his school because a student submitted an assignment about internet safety that included the phrase “child porn”. The student solved the problem by editing his assignment on his iPhone and resubmitting it. Score 1 for mobile technology and -5000 for misguided censorship.
When students find that in order to continue their education, they must subvert the school’s systems, they will increasingly ask why exactly they are supposed to be going to school in the first place.
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How come the PE department can get students to turn out on a cold, wet Saturday afternoon to do their subject, when you find it hard to get them to even turn in their homework on time?
Part of the answer is that the PE department have harnessed the power of (more…)
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With news coming in of Yacapaca being blocked in Lancashire (it’s subversive, you know), I thought this video was apposite.
If you cannot see the video from school, chalk one up to irony and check it from home.
Thanks Jeff Utecht for spotting it.
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