Monthly Archive for July, 2010

Ben Goldacre

Published on 31 July, 2010 in Random Rants. 0 Comments

I saw this very interesting article on Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog. What a refreshing idea – randomised trials to assess teaching methods. It has to be better than the education-as-a-political-football model that we seem to be currently following.
Now – back to my summer holidays

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BSF, Google Earth and Sketchup

Published on 13 July, 2010 in Tales from the classroom. 0 Comments Tags: , , , , , , , , .

In September 2011 we are (hopefully) moving to a new site collocated with Woodside High School.
As part of preparing and engaging the students in what will be a major change we have been finding the site of the new school using Google Earth, importing the map into Google Sketchup and designing our dream schools on [...]