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Restrict Screen Time: Dr Aric Sigman comes to school

  June 13, 2013 - 15:27 |
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Yesterday, 12/06/13, Dr Aric Sigman came to our school to talk to pupils, staff and parents about various issues, prompted by some difficulties presented by the partially anonymous social media website ask.fm. Sigman specialises in presenting his published work around the world including school talks for PSHEEC covering alcohol, body image, electronic media (screen time), parenting and more. For our school he had been asked to cover all or most of these in a whistle-stop tour of his research. I warn you there may be inaccuracies in this post but I have omitted areas I felt unsure about. It presents a flavour of the overall presentation. Dr Sigman is an articulate and charismatic speaker and all our audiences enjoyed his … Continue reading →

ICT in Subjects at #TLAB13

  March 18, 2013 - 20:01 |
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My notes for #TLAB13 presentation followed by the slides; all images from Google’s Stock Collection in Drive. NB: I have not edited the notes for this post. Setting the scene: SMT made decision to teach ICT through other subjects. No more discrete timetabled ICT lessons. Moving to a two-week timetable and 30*50 minute lessons instead of 40*40 minutes per week. ICT teacher would manage which departments and when. Units of work would be decided upon collaboratively. A lot of work. Hard to choose a department. English were restricted by having two class sets of set texts. Maths by streamlining and classes following different POS. Science taught two units at the same time to half a year group each. ADT operate a … Continue reading →

My Twitter workflow – diigo and evernote

  February 8, 2013 - 19:02 | ,
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Often I receive puzzled looks when I say the word twitter. And I think I understand why. But maybe I don’t. It’s hard to see why non-tweeters are non-believers. Also, many twitter users I know do not use the service like I do. So, for tweeters and non-tweeters alike, I thought I’d explain my twitter workflow. I read tweets during incidental/transtion moments unless I am following a hashtag for a conference or something that has piqued my interest. A link grabs my attention and I follow it. I like what I see/read and want to save it somewhere to recall it later (for me that’s evernote or diigo bookmarks) I retweet it using the *quote tweet* option, including some #hashtags … Continue reading →

ICT in Subjects: Lesson Planning and Learning Objectives

  April 6, 2012 - 13:35 |
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The idea of team teaching with lots of my colleagues is intimidating. Daunting. Exciting (we have a lovely staff at Bennies). Sometimes there will be natural friendly banter and repartie, but at other times this won’t come so easily and the potential to offend someone is a risk. Some will be vulnerable, shy, nervous and maybe even unhappy to participate. To minimise this potential, the lesson planning has to be clear and simple and awesome. So, I have started to address this on the planning site. An extract from the site: What I like so far I found on James Michie’s blogpost on learning objectives. This engages in conversation with David Didau, the Learning Spy, who has written posts on … Continue reading →

MA Notes: Halliday, J. (2002) ‘Researching Values in Education’

  January 10, 2010 - 14:48 |
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MA Article Notes Halliday, J. (2002) ‘Researching Values in Education’ British Educational Research Journal. Vol. 28, No. 1, 2002 I found this article hard going. Read it over a period of time (holidays) and had to work hard to follow its arguments. Ultimately I have written this with close reference to the conclusion where Halliday generously summarises his method. I have also included definitions from wikipedia for terms I am unfamiliar with and the links to their source pages. My text/thoughts are in bold to distinguish them from Halliday’s, because I found it difficult to re-write what he is saying. My conclusions: For us doing the masters, I think the reason we are reading this is to introduce us to the importance … Continue reading →