Browse by Tags
All Tags »
learning (RSS)
Available at www.schoolslinks.co.uk/resources_displays.htm
Students equipped with their own laptop demonstrate higher achievement and increased engagement, according to the findings of studies published in the Journal of Technology, Learning and Assessment. All of the studies found that students in the 1:1 settings...
Fiona Aubrey-Smith, Head of Educational Development, UniServity has the following suggestions for using your learning platform effectively and making parental engagement meaningful which go beyond the sharing of pupil attainment and attendance data: ...
Technology offers many opportunities to creatively inspire and motivate teachers and learners, as well as providing a valuable media showcase for your school. The Digital Curriculum Team invite primary and secondary Headteachers and Senior Leaders to...
As a part of the restructuring of KCC web resources the KentNGfL web site will be moving. The majority of the content will stay the same. The web site address will be different. If you have links to any of the resources on your web site or have the KentNGfL...
Quake Shakes shows you recent worldwide earthquake activity and displays them on a map with info on location, date, time and size. Earthquakes of various magnitudes are displayed with different coloured dots, giving you a dramatic visual record of the...
A review of studies of online learning has suggests: Learners who took all or part of their class online perform better than just face-to-face Combining face-to-face and online is more effective than purely online or face-to-face Learners online spent...
Exciting online activities to keep children entertained at home are now available at http://www.nextgenerationlearning.org.uk/At-Home/ Worth sharing with parents!
Our congratulations to Homewood School and Sixth Form Centre, Tenterden (joint runner up). Described by judges as a 'cracking school' with an 'excellent vision of where it wants to go with technology', Homewood has raised standards through...
Teachers looking at persuasive writing within a Literacy lesson might want to use an advert from http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/series/advertisingvideos Some are unsuitable for classroom use so please do check them in advance. My personal favourite is...
Leading ICT Teachers who saw Russell Prue in action at our November conference might be interested in reading his suggestions for technologies he believes could impact on teaching and learning in the 21st Century. These include: Virtual PE Teacher and...
This is one of a new series of handbooks from QCA and can be downloaded from the QCA site: www.qca.org.uk/qca_1880.aspx The handbook suggests ways of modifying each aspect of the programmes of study in the National Curriculum and then outlines opportunities...
I've liked the downloadable stopwatch from www.online-stopwatch.com for some time now. I noticed today that they've added some great new versions.Theres an egg timer, a clock and a bomb with a fuse!! All with variable times. www.online-stopwatch...
Karl Newman from Sevenoaks Primary sent me a link that I just had to share! Three children from Karl's Year One class had been using 2Create A Story to write about 'Sam The Spaceman'. They used a USB microphone to record their voices. Once...
There's a new metal detectors page on Kent NGfL. It includes instructions for how to use the metal detector and downloadable .pdf files for printing. http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/games/metalDetector Ideas include shape bingo, bear bingo, phonemes...
Christina Laun on the College@Home blog has compiled a list of 100 Helpful Web Tools for Every Kind of Learner . This is a very useful list and highlights the wide range of tools we have available to us to meet the needs of different “ learning styles...