Sometimes to just give a description of a task or project to students is not enough. It sometimes fails to inform students how to produce a product that we as teachers will credit as successfully meeting the task’s requirements or our expectations. But we cannot leave the blame entirely at our students’ feet. Often the […]
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Digital workspaces shared by teachers and students are becoming popular, particularly in secondary and third level and Microsoft is trying to carve out its own place in an increasingly competitive market. In the last week, Microsoft announced a new platform for education — Microsoft Classroom. Having joined together tools from Office 365 and a series
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Earlier this year, a new start-up emerged with the lofty ambition of attempting to increase the internet’s educational prowess: Pindex, which describes itself as “a Pinterest for education.” Borne out of a frustration with the gloomy, dreary material his daughter was bringing home from school, John Leaver, along with his four-person team, has created a
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We have followed Promethean’s developments with their ClassFlow online cloud based lesson presentation and assessment toolkit every few months here on the TeachNet Blog over the last two academic year. Those of you who are regular visitors here will recall that I have mentioned previously that the ClassFlow product is under continual development, being regularly
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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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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
