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Tuesday, September 09, 2008 8:44 AM

14- 19, keeping track when students move around!

A continuing trend in education is the need to support 14 - 19 choice, and to achieve this schools join consortia to improve the range of courses on offer. This presents two problems: How do you move them around? How do you know where the student is?...
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Friday, June 13, 2008 8:19 PM

Shine - talent in all young people!

Shine is a national celebration of all talent in all young people providing creative ways to celebrate and showcase students' achievements during Shine week from 30 June to 4 July. Shine is the place for teachers to show off too. Do you have a hidden...
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 3:43 PM

Assessment for Learning? Learning to Learn?

I have been involved in a long-running debate around assessment for learning (rather than assessment of learning). Indeed, I believe I have a good understanding of the concept thanks to my colleague Jerry Owens from the secondary transformation team,...
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Friday, October 12, 2007 11:40 AM

Politics similar to education? Surely Not?

David Cameron’s speech at the Google Zeitgeist Conference in San Francisco offered interesting parallels with education. In it he suggests that the impact of technology is that politicians need to “... let go of power”, and speaks of a people taking more...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007 10:51 AM

Assessment? Welcome to Flatworld!

Taking a previous post, “… what are we measuring ?” I believe there is a fundamental problem in how to measure the positive benefits of technology. Whatever new and exciting creative media might be dreamed up in a web 2.0 world, educators and exam boards...
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Wednesday, July 11, 2007 11:39 AM

More Q's: What are we measuring?

There are some crucial points being made here this morning; not least why we think we can measure the impact of technology by looking at GCSE results. The impact of technology is pervasive, and success needs to be considered in the context of the ubiquity...
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