Archive for the ‘Education’ Category
Using students as researchers – avoiding pseudocontext
For those teachers involved in the teaching of L3 Btec Applied Science, one of the most difficult aspects of the course can be the contextualisation of the learning experience.
Btec demands ...
Using a Kindle in Btec research
Recently I trialled using a Kindle in class to support some guided research for our L3 Btec students, with some surprising consequences.
The we used the WiFi only Kindle (not the ...
Using Pivot Tables to analyse school data
I love pivot tables as they offer the flexibility to rapidly alter your visualisation of a large data set.
You can alter which way you look at data – by year, class, sex, ...
You say Shambhala, I say Shamballa – who’s right Jay-Z?
OK, I know I’m getting on a bit, and I occasionally miss the “next big thing” but I have to admit that this one completely passed me by.
I come into school ...
PE makes you smarter?
Recently I’ve been chewing over an ongoing problem.
Every Thursday I have a 2hr Science lesson that is split by a 1hr PE lesson. So I have the Year 9 for ...
Element flame tests
As is the way with Google oddities, I receive 50+ visitors per day to this blog looking for information on flame tests and flame testing techniques — odd, as the only ...
Book review – What’s Science Ever Done for Us?
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What's Science Ever Done for Us?: What the Simpsons Can Teach Us About Physics, Robots, Life, and the Universe (Paperback)
By (author) Paul Halpern
All too often tie-ins and cross ...
The purpose of education…
As a head of faculty, science teacher, physicist and parent the question over the “purpose” of education is a troubling one – one that often leads to heated debate.
I’d like ...
Book review – Assessment for Learning: Putting it into Practice
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Assessment for Learning: Putting it into Practice (Paperback)
By (author) Paul Black, Chris Harrison, Clare Lee, Bethan Marshall, Dylan Wiliam
I’ve written a few Amazon reviews in the past and ...
Statistically overclocking an android phone
I keep coming back to looking for opportunities to teach experimental design in a different manner than “one variable at a time.” Today’s example is overclocking an android phone.
Once you ...
Unquestioned science / maths
As its’s the holidays I’ve been noticing things – not just decorating and the dog needing washing, but real, educational stuff.
I’ve been posting on Lightbox piccies taken with my phone ...
(Education) Bucket list….
Friday 6th April 2012 was a big day for me. Yes, it was my 40th birthday and yes, I’m feeling very mortal, but the big event for me, was seeing ...
Is TV killing your subject?
What a lovely emotive question and one that I’ve posed like that to stir the reactionary heart strings. In this case though, I’m not bemoaning the TV as the harbinger ...
Main effects analysis
I’ve blogged in the past about my desire to be able to teach learners a more rounded approach to experimental design. Previously, I’ve written about One Variable at a Time in ...
PLNs and peer collaboration
Like most people when I started blogging and tweeting I had three parts of my personality that I wanted to feed the needs of:
The learn from a like minded set ...
Blog / twitter fatigue
My last blog post was back in November and since then I’ve been thinking hard about why I follow people, read others blogs and generally go along with the Web2.0 ...
Serious Sand Collecting and Geology post-16
A couple of years ago, my daughter brought a sand castle home from school. She had visited the beach the previous week and collected some sand. They had then mixed ...
Lies, damned lies, and physics
The following post orignates from Chris Pitcher over at: http://edukating.blogspot.com/and is a timely reminder of (again) just how manipulated we can be by statistics:
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According to Ziggy ...
Gender differentials – see I was right!
I predicted some headlines yesterday and blogged about the use of MEANs to represent data sets. (See GCSE results: are they Mean?)
Having looked at the headlines from various papers and online ...
What does a Q grade in Btec and GCSE mean?
Edit: May 2012
“What does a Q grade mean for BTEC?”
“What does a Q grade in GCSE mean?” …. the answer is simple…
A Q grade means “Pending“- and indicates that no result ...
