using student feedback to improve your practice

from the Guardian Teachers' Network here

On interactive Whiteboards

http://news.tes.co.uk/b/tes-professional/2014/04/17/are-interactive-whiteboards-really-being-used-interactively.aspx

interview with inspirational black female head teacher- and on poverty

here

on literacy and encouraging children and young people to read

Some of this is for younger children, but there are some useful tips and ideas to take on board.

Media Education Association- the campaign for A Level Media and Film

Please read here and subscribe. At present, there are no guarantees that Gove et al are going to approve this hugely popular A Level. Join the campaign

digital literacy is as important as reading and writing

Interesting article from the Daily Telegraph

David Gauntlett- on audience as creator

Gauntlett is a writer who we use a lot in Media Studies. he is interested in the concept of "Media 2.0" which mirrors Web 2.0 with a move away from traditional hierarchical models of producer-text-consumer.  Gauntlett's focus is on audiences as collaborators and creators -- or "pro-sumers", as he describes them.  He is interested in how students have more access to tools which help them create, and how this experience is empowering.   Here's his blog .
Also of interest is David Buckingham's work on children and digital cultures, and how technologies might facilitate an informal learning space

Why are teachers so worried about technology in the classroom?

Article here from the Guardian Teachers' network

Should hand-held devices be banned in under 12s?

as this article in the Huffington Post suggests.  Fuels the on-going discourse of moral panic and the media that's been going on since Tom and Jerry, methinks...

Ken Robinson's RSA lecture: Changing Education Paradigms

I found this depressing... what do others think?  I love his ideas, but I wonder whether it's getting too late for our students?

And for further reading, there are some Ted talks here and his website here

Ted talks: Sugata Mitra

on the child-driven education and his research using a range of multi-media technologies

My teacher is an app

Here's the link to the BBC Radio 4 programme and blurb

And for further information on the Khan Academy which is mentioned in the programme, click here

Steve Besley's blog

here

Ofsted's new shorter inspections

here's The Guardian's take on it- what do you think?

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