Wow. Well, half yearly exam marking has finished, which can only mean one thing: report writing. Fortunately, my PLN continues to tweet all sorts of awesomeness, so I am taking a bit of time (as an excuse to watch the football) to update my favourite tweets from the last couple of weeks. First up, more ideas of web-based PD:
Educators Are Doin’ It For Themselves: Creating Their Own Professional Development | User Generated Education http://t.co/KNFy7pXYe2
— Hoganson (@TerryHoganson) May 18, 2014
Speaking of web-based PD, put ‘free’, ‘Harvard’, ‘innovation’ and ‘leadership’ in a single sentence and it’s sounding pretty good. Sure, it’s a teaser to buy their book, but there’s some reasonable content even within this Introduction
Why innovation requires a different kind of leader. Download this chapter from Collective Genius: http://t.co/CoKGWNvXyt
— Harvard Biz Review (@HarvardBiz) May 22, 2014
A couple of good ideas for History YouTube channels here – I’ve used Crash Course a couple of times and they usually distill the main points pretty succinctly (although I keep pausing and explaining, so a 10 minute clip takes most of a lesson…)
KerryHawk02: Teaching HistoryTech: Best YouTube Channels for History Teachers http://t.co/hzRx94kI90 — Hoganson (@TerryHoganson) May 16, 2014
Despite it being pretty fundamental to any pre-service training, a number of teachers seem to not get the difference between formative and summative assessment. I’m putting this one up because it has some good ideas for some formative activities with technology
Formative Assessment Infographic http://t.co/BPYwkKTjDE
— Greg Garner (@classroom_tech) May 14, 2014
It is hardly a secret to treat people fairly, with respect and have a good time. But ‘business principles’ of trusting no one, instituting a culture of fear (or ‘accountability’ – see next one) and adhering only to minimum required by law have infected professional sport and education. Well, unfortunately Saracens lost last night, but you can be sure they’ll be back next year ready to go
This is what great schools need the courage to do – and it has a hard edge: Cult of Saracens http://t.co/D0jPBEHbBi pic.twitter.com/ZEqhHrulaH — Nigel J. Winnard (@KICSPrincipal) May 24, 2014
I opened this, half read it, got distracted, and now can’t find the tweet for it but never mind, I’ll tweet it myself. A US Maths teacher unloads at a TEDx about the bucks being made by proclaiming the failing education system – and, look! We’ve got a new textbook / technology / speaker to sell you…
Toxic Culture of Ed: profits & tests drive us to ‘rigor’ but not relevance & kids get left behind daily http://t.co/hjuHWvSaog
— Brendan Toohey (@DPHistoryCom) May 25, 2014
Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time (DIRT) – probably what we have all done at some stage, but cool acronym!
#PedagooFriday seeing the impact of DIRT in the week of my GCSE exam http://t.co/x33XA8ebMt
— Mister West (@Westylish) May 23, 2014
OK, enough! Have a great week.
BT
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