A really thoughtful post from Creative ICT
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The Science of Diet Coke and Mentos Suggested as a Sc1 Investigation from ‘Teaching Science.’ Why does it work? – Why do Mentos foam when you drop them in soda pop? Coke and Mentos – Nucleation goes nuclear. How to? from eepybird. From Danny Nicholson The full video, plus music can be found here. Mentos [...] Dipity – A rather neat Web2.0 program that allows one or groups of children to create a timeline. You can set a class password or invite collaboration via e-mail. Contribution is by invitation only, although all can view. Here’s on that was begun earlier. (Click – Show all, if nothing visible.) Here it is linked [...] Can’t our masters be more constructive? It’s just a constant litany of teacher bashing. ‘Minister’s threats put schools in turmoil, say heads.’ I’ll leave it to Steve Bell ‘The War on Failure’ The letters page the next day had some well put thoughts. ‘The success stories behind ‘failing’ schools. A loud and lively video highlighted by ‘The Cool Cat Teacher Blog.’ A piece in today’s Guardian by Simon Jenkins would if applied correctly have a liberating effect on the Primary Curriculum. ‘In the age of computers, maths beyond simple and applied arithmetic is needed only by specialists. Ramming it down pupils’ throats in case they may one day need it is like making us all know [...] A series of programmes from Teacher’s TV. Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 A slight tangent but I find Arthur and his work fascinating, beautiful and awesome. Perhaps you will too. Arthur Ganson’s website for more videos of his work. Machine with 23 scraps of paper. From EbaumsWorld |
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