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The impact of ICT: Facebook hits 200 million users

13, Jul 2009

I’m toying with the idea of making a website devoted to resources specifically geared towards developing thinking skills, and awareness of the wider world… I try as far as I can to avoid the “trivial pursuits” Jamie McKenzie argued so eloquently against. Hell, it’s not as if I work hard enough (cough).
Anyhow, thought I’d share [...]

Demystifying abstract terms

11, Jul 2009

One of the problems with a subject like ICT is relating seemingly abstract terms. In a recent discussion about storage & computer memory, I found some of my Key Stage 3 students had little concept of the units of file size. After a little while we established that a kilobyte was bigger than a byte, [...]

Pupil speak level descriptors

9, Jun 2009

The requests for ICT level descriptors in pupil speak continue to pile up on the TES forums, so I thought I’d make mine available for download. Personally, I think they make a lot of sense, and cover the array of ICT skills we ought to be covering in high schools very well, but at first [...]

Resources: lesson plan proforma & Bloom’s taxonomy for ICT

7, Jun 2009

I posted these a while ago on Twitter, but I think they deserve a repost. During my training year, I saw lesson plans as a hurdle to jump before teaching a lesson, but over the course of this year I’ve come to appreciate the value of an in-depth lesson plan. I put together a new [...]

On the Rose reforms, and kicking up a stink

6, Jun 2009

I was interviewed by a freelance journalist for a TES article recently, and was told that our LA ICT advisor was unhappy with the comment I gave on the Rose reforms. “Good ICT is very difficult to teach, and rarely gets beyond skills building, or ‘trivial pursuits’ in primary schools,” I said, annoying primary ICT [...]

That’s bloody brilliant

25, Apr 2009

As I said in my very first post, a whole four posts ago,  I tend to ignore new, trendy web-based stuff until I’m clubbed over the head with it. On the off chance that there are other tech savvy Luddites out there, I thought I’d put together a collection of my latest discoveries in list [...]


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