If you like to use comics and cartoons in your teaching, and encourage students to do so too, you'll like this collection of comic-making utilities.
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From 2010: Here’s a thought. I like to think of myself as a glass half full type of person. So why all the doom and gloom about the apparent lack of Governmental support, in the UK, for technology in the classroom?
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I published this on 7 December 2009. I don’t think anything has changed since then as far as my opinions are concerned. I have removed a now-defunct link.
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In 2009 I invited readers to take part in a small survey asking the question "Why do you subscribe to blogs?". Here they are the results, updated with information from an AI app.
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Chapters look at how technology is used around the world, online communities, and building a culturally just infrastucture, amongst other topics.
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The author, Mechelle Gilford, explores how AI may render our usual way of interpreting the concept of “gifted” obsolete.
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Dr Bot discusses something I hadn’t really considered…
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Rovelli draws readers into his world by describing the development of theories that scientists have posited to try and explain our world and the universe beyond.
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A question: is Cognitive Load Theory another example of the emperor’s new clothes?
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All of the reasons to attend that I’ve suggested in 21 reasons to attend conferences are valid, but they are personal, in a sense. So here are 9 suggested arguments that may appeal to your senior leadership team.
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Apparently the Department for Education is working on a new writing framework. Let’s hope it will be voluntary, because if the usual substandard writing we often see emanating from the DfE is anything to go by, it will be the last thing anybody needs.
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The authors spent a year sending each other postcards on a different theme each week, with pictorial representations of the data they had collected.
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What place might Blueprints merit on a teacher’s bookshelves?
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Gretchen Rubin talks about four kinds of self-motivation. Might this provide a way of thinking about how to encourage colleagues to use education technology in their lessons?
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It’s often difficult to get time out of school to attend a conference, but I think you should try and get to at least one a year.
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This book could prove useful to schools keen to cultivate their own dedicated ‘back to nature’ area.
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A couple of generations before the first internet cafés were opened, someone attempted pretty much the same thing by opening a ‘radio café’.
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This book is awash with ideas.
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This may be useful for the Hiostory department in your school.
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I borrowed this book from the library yesterday and have had to stop reading it.
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