A scribd ipaper document from ‘The Whiteboard Blog‘ on the subject of creative commons and sounds.
Creative Commons Images and Sounds
Get your own at Scribd or explore others: Education Course Material blogs creative
We have a search page on our website that brings [...]
Professor Stephen Heppell’s keynote for the K12 online conference.
Social Bookmarking
Tagged RealityCheckMAJOR REFORMS TO SCHOOL ACCOUNTABILITY INCLUDING AN END TO COMPULSORY NATIONAL TESTS FOR FOURTEEN YEAR OLDS.
But
Ed Balls said that externally marked Key Stage 2 tests were critically important and would continue as the key source of information for parents and the public about standards in primary schools.
‘Key Stage 2 tests are a robust, objective [...]
A summary of the report here
Key elements so far are
- encourage student engagement
- encourage online discussion
- extend their learning
- sense of ownership
The report into the use of Web2.0 technologies at KS3 and KS4 to be found here.
This report is for KS3 and KS4 but looking at the work at Sandaig and Tom Barret’s Blog [...]
A few choice words from the Guru by David Ward
An article about Cliff Yates ideas for poetry teaching.
Cliff Yates from the Poetry Class - This is just to say
Poetry Class “taking the fear out of teaching poetry”
National Poetry Day on October 9th - here
Social Bookmarking
Sats blight children’s memories of school.
by
Mark Gould in the Guardian.
This echoes the Panorama programme from earlier this year. Do you remember the Sats monster?
Social Bookmarking
Stumbled across this on Drake’s Takes.
Social Bookmarking
Sats put primary pupils off science, says study.
by Jessica Shepherd in ‘The Guardian’
National testing distorts science teaching in Primary Schools from the Wellcome Trust
Download report here.
Social Bookmarking
There it was again this morning.
British class sizes among the highest in the world.
By Jessica Shepherd in the Guardian.
An average of 24.5.
Interestingly the Private sector has an average of 13 less than this.
In their words “Britain stands out as having the biggest difference in Primary Class size between Public and Private classrooms of all [...]
A hint apparently.
Balls hints at end to SATs tests.
from the BBC Website on Sunday.
Is sanity about to prevail??
Social Bookmarking