My L1 Science class has just finished up their Mechanics Unit. To try and gently shift this class into being more independent, I used a OneNote I had prepared for my class for revision last year as the main source of information. There were lots of relevant notes, videos, office mix walk throughs of oldContinue reading “Do students need to be TAUGHT?”
Category Archives: Teaching and Learning
Taking a risk with a mixed level class
Last year when subject choices were being made, I crossed a wee professional line. A complete blunder had been made (IMO). L3 PE had been put in the same line as L3 Chemistry. About 7 really good kids wanted to do to both. I told them (much to the displeasure of some… I got aContinue reading “Taking a risk with a mixed level class”
Purposeful play
Lately I have been thinking about how to describe my ‘classroom practice’ that has a positive impact on my students – for an interview/article if you are interested in why I would think about such things so explicitly. It has also been appraisal docs time, and report writing time, and at the moment I justContinue reading “Purposeful play”
Playing along with gamification
Gamification is a word I don’t like very much. It has been used a lot in an educational context (simply searching gamification in education gave over 1 million hits) around making learning more: fun; engaging; relevant; real life contexts etc. I have yet to decide whether for me it means actually building games, or just utilising games inContinue reading “Playing along with gamification”
Office Forms is HERE and it is AWESOME
One thing I felt was lacking from the office 365 suite of software for education was a forms option. So I am REALLY excited to see the Office forms preview that has been released in the last month or so. I really missed (and still used) google forms, which provided a quick and easy way to formativelyContinue reading “Office Forms is HERE and it is AWESOME”
OneNote has levelled up with Learning Tools
OneNote learning tools is AWESOME. It is an add on for Microsoft OneNote that contains an immersive reader and a dictation function. I didn’t think it was possible to love OneNote any more than I did, but I do now. When using OneNote learning tools, you can take ANY text and be able to change the font,Continue reading “OneNote has levelled up with Learning Tools”
Fly away…. as long as you come back some day
I have this super awesome song from fly my pretties on repeat in my head. It has got wedged in my head with the news that not one, not two but three (THREE) people I have a lot of time for are leaving New Zealand classrooms for ‘brighter shores’. All have told me in theContinue reading “Fly away…. as long as you come back some day”
Letting it go…… with Yr 10 Staying Alive
I LOVE year 10 Science. There is more freedom (still have to do standard tests/assessments that all the other classes are doing and have the exams at the end of the year but there doesn’t seem to be the same pressure….) and you can take a little bit of extra time to get to whereContinue reading “Letting it go…… with Yr 10 Staying Alive”
Numeracy…. it matters
I saw this tweet on my feed a while ago and it has been nagging at me….. What’s the situation in NZ? @NZScienceTeachr#scichatNZ#edchatNZ@N4LNZ@coreeducationhttps://t.co/ZjAJOFzVSa — Brian Ricketts (@KiwiGeolog) February 6, 2016 Which linked to an article The article raises concerns that less and less students are taking the maths classes that allow them to participate fullyContinue reading “Numeracy…. it matters”
A Sneak preview of #minechem
All of the work here is from Dave Warren and his son Angus. I think it is seriously awesome and have been having a wee play with some of the mods myself. Also, I can’t say enough how awesome Dave (and Angus) are for sharing all of this with me and my class. We areContinue reading “A Sneak preview of #minechem”
ibpossum takes on tech 