Steps in Teaching and Learning

Kinect Calculations

kvnmcl — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:08:26 +0000

A quick post for Sunday. Last week I started using the Kinect system with my XBox in class. I’ve only got Kinect Adventures but that it has more than enough options for use in many areas of the curriculum. I use the Reflex Bridge to generate the numbers required for our mental calculation [...]

We do make a difference

kvnmcl — Sat, 12 May 2012 19:19:22 +0000

Over the last week the teaching profession, which I am proud to be part of, has once again come under attack from the Education Secretary Michael Gove and the Chief of Ofsted Sir Michael Wilshaw. The attacks have been so vile that I wanted to vent my anger and frustration here on my blog. But [...]

Digital Literacy in the primary classroom

kvnmcl — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 19:36:39 +0000

I’ve been following the work on Digital Literacy by Doug Belshaw for just over 2 years and I’m still getting my head round what it means to be digitally literate. Two years ago Doug published a post which really grabbed my interest in which he outlined his 8 elements of Digital Literacy as part of [...]

Personalising Learning does more than get results

kvnmcl — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 20:51:27 +0000

At the start of January of this year I embarked on a different approach to teaching and learning in my classroom, I personalised the learning of each and every learner in my class focusing on their learning not my teaching. I had read, researched and discussed this approach but I was still unsure whether it would be as effective as [...]

Playing hide and seek with data protection

kvnmcl — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:56:57 +0000

We all know the game ‘Hide and Seek’, I loved playing it as a kid and it’s always been one of my favourite games. Yet the game’s essence of hiding is apparent in some of today’s internet users who are adamant they will not be found. They hide behind anonymous proxies, ip addresses that lead [...]