It was a great pleasure to attend last Tuesday’s Mirandamod to hear Etienne Wenger discussing communities of practice (CoP), with particular relation to education, both in schools and, particularly, in relation to teachers’ continuing professional development. I’m sure that the…
Moving between Windows computers in my new office and teaching rooms, my Ubuntu netbook and my MacBook Pro, I find myself relying more and more on web-based tools, particularly google mail, calendar and docs. I also find myself valuing ever…
An article in today’s TES about ways in which schools might encourage more pupils to take up places in science, technology, engineering and maths, including comments from me and others involved with Computing at School: “With an extra 10,000 undergraduate…
Some notes written as introductory material to this year’s primary PGCE course What is meaningful learning? It is learning with a purpose, learning which allows those who engage in it to attach more meaning to the world around them, learning…
Originally published at http://opensourceschools.org.uk/michael-k-lling-greenfoot.html It’s great to see Open Source Schools community member Michael Kölling’s new book, an Introduction to Programming with Greenfoot published. Greenfoot is one of the new wave of graphical programming environments written with learners in mind….
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