One of the best things I’ve ever heard about Assessment For Learning (AFL) is: Feedback is not a postmortem but a medical checkup That sums it up. AFL is about providing feedback on how to improve in the future (responsive) rather than judgement on what the student has been doing (reactive). It therefore recognises theContinue reading “What is AFL?”
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What skills will I need?
At the start of the academic year I encouraged students to consider 21st century reality in terms of both the professional and the personal sphere. We outlined how life today differs from the reality of say 3 or 4 decades ago, and how in the coming decades it will likely continue to evolve or radicallyContinue reading “What skills will I need?”
MS Teams (& Co)
The Covid-19 situation did not just force us inside but also forced us out onto the internet even more, looking for new ways to reach our students…some of the things that worked were not new at all and some of the new things we found we will carry with us beyond the Covid-19 (sur)reality. ForContinue reading “MS Teams (& Co)”
Class Projects
Project-Based Learning allows my students to learn by actively engaging in real-world and personally meaningful projects. It provides them with a context in which to grow by creating a product for a real audience. In our project work, I make an effort to introduce elements of the emergent curriculum by ensuring that the project itselfContinue reading “Class Projects”
Teaching Coding
Why Code? “Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.” Steve Jobs I don’t think coding is central because I am a Computing teacher, but rather that I am a Computing teacher because I am aware of the importance of coding and technology education. It isContinue reading “Teaching Coding”
Empire!
This exercise aimed to gamify working out past papers and its game structure can be adapted for different types of revision work. Gameplay Students are given a brief description of the game. Students have two minutes to memorise a list of great names in Computing; Then students have 2 minutes to list as many namesContinue reading “Empire!”
The Flipped Classroom
A lot of my efforts have a common denominator: moving away from the teacher who tells, to the enabler who’s students are doing. That sounds prosaic I suppose, but generally as I plan lessons one of my guiding questions is: ‘what are the students doing for most of the lesson?’ If the answer involves somethingContinue reading “The Flipped Classroom”
Queries
Cooperative teaching in the mixed ability class. ‘Working out past papers’ as a reflective exercise. Feasibility of and tweaks on jigsaw in smaller groups. Feasibility of statement of goals on topic level rather than lesson level. Creating a conversation round computer game progress.
Lift Off
MSTeams 4 VLE After considering Fronter, Edmodo and my existing blog-centric methods among others, I realised that MS Teams would probably be the best platform round which to structure our course. With the 2020 learning-from-home experience, most students are already familiar with MSTeams MSTeams will also allow me to gather all my usual resources onContinue reading “Lift Off”
Lesson Structure
This entry is a collection of ideas for new learning experiences. Sneaking in the H, the A and the Q into the KWL lesson Lesson Introduction Review of prerequisite learning. Setting of short statement of goals. Thoughts on doing this at topic level rather than lesson level? Learning Activities Guide students during initial practice ProvideContinue reading “Lesson Structure”
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