Educators and students are to be moving into a new era in education, as learning software becomes more and more popular there is strong evidence that learning software not only aids the learning process it also helps connect individuals, enhancing collaboration, it increases the speed of which content is delivered and above all lowers the [...]
A question that many people ask “What is elearning?“, Elearning I believe is a simple concept in my opinion, it’s learning online. When we ask “What is elearning?” by definition it’s put across in an over complicated and it’s percieved as modern technology that we don’t yet know or understand. We answer our own question [...]
Creating exciting and thought provoking lessons is not for the faint-hearted. Like most teachers I run out of new ways to make lessons interesting. Technology, however, is never a waste with learners as they use technology on a day to day basis and embrace it fully.
Approaches are made on a regular basis within schools to [...]
We all learn at different rates and in different ways. Most of us benefit from a combination of auditory, visual and kinesthetic approach to learning. Identifying individual needs though is vital in order for each learner to achieve their full potential.
Modifying the curriculum to meet different needs can often lead to confusion. Assistive technology (often [...]
Evidence based assessment in education can be a laborious task. Collating, interpreting, recording and administering students’ responses to a project is an art.
Meeting the standards set by The Office for Standards in Education in the UK (Ofsted) ensure that regular inspections of schools “achieve excellence in the care of children and young people” www.ofsted.co.uk On [...]
In The Guardian last week there was a fascinating article on using mobile phone technology as a teaching tool. My initial reaction was to scoff at this suggestion, but after reading the article through thoroughly I was given food for thought.
During the 2000s I have warmed to multimedia mostly because of my Blackberry phone. Being [...]
Relating to young learners can be a tricky business. Pedagogy though is not only for the young and not only accessible from a classroom. It can take place anywhere and is for everyone. The regimentation of the traditional classroom is no longer the only environment for good learning to take place. Long gone are the [...]
To work at an ‘invisible college’ would be most educators dream, one would have thought. Seriously though, where would we be without the interaction, albeit on the most basic level, which enhance our communication skills, if we didn’t have our day to day rituals of travelling to our place of learning, and then sharing the [...]
I find working against Social Networking within school-time fruitless. What better way to gain students’ attention than with the very thing they enjoy the most!
Banning Facebook, Bebo and the likes only leads to animosity between student and teacher. Obtaining a ‘happy medium’ seems to be the only answer.
Encouraging Social Learning
Beginning with pages on Facebook to [...]
When I decided that all my projects and content were to be presented online for all those to view and download I thought long and hard about what would be the best and most effective way of creating, compiling and tracking those files.
The main focus was the setup, how would the files be presented, how [...]
