Category: Curriculum

  • When Calculators in the Classroom Were the Most Terrible Things on Earth

    When Calculators in the Classroom Were the Most Terrible Things on Earth

    Calculators in classrooms were going to ruin kids’ ability to do maths. They’ll never learn to add, multiply, divide, subtract, and do all those other mathematical calculations they never use in real life. Us teachers got ourselves in a real knot arguing about whether students could have calculators to help…

  • Fearless Public Speaking for Kids

    Took me a while, but I’ve finally got my manual out there. More than 40 pages of tips, hints and encouragement for Middle School students keen to improve their public speaking skills. I’m keen for all students to leave school with an advanced level of confidence to speak to any…

  • Tip Sheets Are the Go

    Creating simple tip sheets that capture the key information and ideas for a project is still as simple a support material as you need – even in this digital age.

  • Tech Tools Teachers Can’t Live Without

    …. in this remote and virtual world We asked a range of teachers “Which bit of software do you absolutely need to help you with remote teaching?” They’re top ten plus one answers were: Zoom – for video/voice face to face group calls 2. Storyboard – create visual boards for…

  • New7Wonders of the World

    In 2000 a Swiss foundation launched a campaign to determine the New Seven Wonders of the World. Given that the original Seven Wonders list was compiled in the 2nd century —and that only one entrant is still standing (the Pyramids of Giza)—it seemed time for an update. And people around the world apparently…

  • Church Going

    I’ve just finished Julia Baird’s book Phosphoresence. One of the few books that I will re-read very soon. There are a few chapters in the book about her faith and the evolutions she has gone through with Christianity. Haven’t we all? Usually through one door, stay for a while and…

  • Typography 01 by Chris Do

    I’ve been doing Chris Do’s Typography 01 Course over the last few days. It’s been great. I paid a three figure sum (you can see the price on the link) to get some information about something that I really enjoy. And from someone that has a bit of kudos in…

  • Happy Sheets

    Post-Workshop Surveys are often unintentionally intended to ensure that everyone was happy with the workshop and generally had a beneficial day. Organisers probably expect one or two suggestions of improvement, but after all the effort they put into the event, they expect the positive to well outweigh the negative. In…

  • The Person with the Most Badges Wins

    eLearning Modules to the Max Our team has just gone through the process of completing a series of modules to learn about a new interface – not a new application – a new interface which holds the same data and the same fields that the legacy system held, but the…

  • Gun Control or Gun Rights

    I’ve updated the popular pack of worksheets on Gun Control to a Google Apps version. It loads all the worksheets on to a series of Google Docs and nests them in a Google Site. HERE