I had a fantastic day at the BBC working 21st Century Classroom and students form Moselle School and the Haringey 6th Form Centre as part of our Transition Project. The project aims to ease the transition of students from school to the 6th Form centre by bringing the students together to do some collaborative work. The [...]
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This hilarious Onion article (found here) got me thinking about the way that we learn.
Although the article is a parody – Connor’s experiences of school pretty much match my recollection of my own childhood. School was boring. When I think of the great learning moments of my life, with a few notable exceptions, largely took [...]
We have had ongoing problems with both pupils and staff sending multiple copies to our networked printers. Our children have special needs, and many of the ASD students love to print hundreds of pictures of whatever the subject of the latest obsessions (Ford Focus cars, Korean cartoon characters, cricket scores and Dyson vacuum cleaners jump [...]
1) 10ways. Looks great on an IWB. A mash-up doing brilliant things with the Getty Image library. My personal favourite is information. I have used it the younger and less able ASD children – who love it. It looks fantastic on an IWB – and works well as a mouse skills exercise, as a calming [...]
I’ve been using 2Simple’s 2Email with SEN students over the past term – and have had some fantastic results. The software enables students with very limited literacy to send emails. The system is internal only – with no access to the internet – and all users are identified by their name and, crucially, their photo. [...]
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