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Collaboration on Dan Meyer’s 3 Act Maths supported by Technology
Please join us on this collaborative project. Note all materials are copyright to Dan Meyer – All of this collaborative work is for non commercial purposes and is for us all to share ideas freely Are...
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Three Act Science – Collaboration?
Before we start educating them, it makes sense to ask the question what makes a great scientist? Curiosity? The ability to ask astute questions ? Being able to consider innovative and divergent...
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So you do understand Physics – You just thought you didn’t
Could we try a new approach to learning physics? What if we start with the premise that our students intuitively understand lots already. Having done a project with Arsenal on the physics of football...
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iPads in Science – Transforming learning?
A brief overview of how I have been using iPads to transform science lessons . Using the SAMR model I am really only interested in redefinition. Using the iPad to do things I cannot do without them....
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If you are not perfect, you are not yet finished
There seems to be a battle raging on twitter with a divide between didactic and interactive teaching partly stoked by Daisy Christodoulou’s book Seven Myths About Education. I don’t really get it....
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Getting your students to really think independently
What are the answers to these three questions? Try to solve them before reading further (1) A bat and a ball cost $1.10 in total. The bat costs $1.00 more than the ball. How much does the ball cost?...
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Are we teaching our most successful students for a lifetime of avoiding failure?
Remember the really clever kids at your school – the ones who always got top marks in tests without really working hard ? What are they doing now? Some have gone on to great things, but it seems to me...
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Co-constructing Lessons – Giving Students Ownership of their Learning –...
Co-constructing lessons is a movement towards giving students ownership of their learning Last week I delivered a session for NASSSA and 3P Learning to support South Australia in their...
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The Magnificent Seven – Simple Strategies using Technology to Transform Learning
Part of what will form a series that aid learning, behaviour and make me more effective as a teacher. These are my seven favourite things – The Magnificent Seven – Simple Strategies using Technology...
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Mobile phones and iPads hamper learning !! – In defence of Technology in...
“Whats the point of using technology it detracts from learning ” a teacher said to me. All the evidence points against it and the government are going to ban them anyway. Deep sigh – where has this...
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Resilience – Why do our youngsters lack Resilience? – What we can do to help...
Do you find your students (or your children) Often give up too easily? Lack initiative? Deal with failure badly ? Blame others when things go wrong? Want you to solve their problems? Fear failure, so...
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9 Simple Steps to Revolutionise the Teaching of Primary Science
Definition of Science : the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment....
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Curiosity – 10 Reasons Why We need it in our Classroom
A quick test for you – What would you do? What is it about this sign that compels us to want to disobey it? Partly the language- “peering” isn’t a nasty thing! Partly the lack of purpose of it – Why...
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Science Teachers – 10 ideas for heat transfer lessons
A lot of students really struggle with the concepts of thermal energy transfer. It is a classic case of them turning up to our lessons having plenty of ideas of what is happening, most of which are...
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