Many readers of this blog use ClassDojo as a behaviour management tool in their classroom but for those who don’t, I would highly recommend it. Not only is it completely free, it is a really clever tool for rewarding children’s behaviour in the classroom and much more motivational than most other reward systems out there. […]
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In the autumn of 2015 the State of Vermont in the US introduced a law requiring all schools to implement Personalised Learning Plans for every student in the state. Each PLP would have to identify goals, learning styles, abilities and align these with the schools academic ethos to ensure each student continues to successfully progress
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Many principals and teachers find ICT integration a challenge and wonder where they might start in terms of identifying what knowledge and skills they possess and areas where they might develop their skills further. There are a growing number of self-assessment tools available to educators that allow one to assess your ‘level’ of digital literacy
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One of the joys of internet browsing is discovering quietly brilliant websites that consistently deliver high quality educational digital content. Thanks to museums across the world sharing their archives in a variety of engaging multi-media formats online we now have finger tip access to huge libraries of learning material. This is a far cry from
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Pixar Animation Studios and Khan Academy – an online classroom that provides free mini-tutorials and in-browser activities – have teamed up to create an online course to introduce all animator enthusiasts, both young and old, to the world of animation. The course, made up of a series of lessons is called Pixar in a Box. The lessons show the coding, maths, art,
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The internet may make homework a breeze for youngsters, but many parents worry their children may stumble across something inappropriate when searching online. In a bid to solve this problem, a new search engine for children has launched called Kiddle. Featuring Google’s famous colors in its logo, Kiddle swaps the plain white background found on the
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Yesterday, Denmark was dubbed the best country in the EU for ‘digital performance’. For the second year running, the European Commission’s annual report on digital services in Europe, the Digital Economy and Society Index (DESI), put Denmark at the top of the pile. In this report, the Danes were praised for being “the most advanced in the
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MinecraftEdu is a special edition of Mojang’s original Minecraft developed by TeacherGaming LLC in Finland in 2011. It has been used in thousands of classrooms in 40 countries all around the globe. At the heart of any MinecraftEdu classroom setup is the MinecraftEdu server. A separate server license is required for each classroom using MincraftEdu for pupils working
We have purchased two Raspberry Pi starter kits and are looking to get programming with Scratch on them with some boys from fifth and sixth class. We are going to hook the Raspberry Pi devices up to old PC monitors and use the Scratch, which comes with OS to develop our programming skills. The board
At the recent IPPN conference expo, it was interesting to see the number of companies selling interactive touchscreens. They are being hailed as the successor to Interactive Whiteboards and they were certainly giving the principals some food for thought. The big selling point seemed to be that with an Interactive Touchscreen, there was no need
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