There are a lot of online learning platforms promising great formative assessment during the COVID-19 Crisis. But they are all rubbish. Here’s how to do it right.
Online Learning in the time of a pandemic: What it is, What it isn’t.
Because of the Coronavirus, schools across the world are sending students and teachers home and moving towards online learning. Parents and students are being assured
QLD SPECIALIST MATHS: UNIT 1: COMPLETE VIDEO PLAYLISTS
Every Topic from the new Queensland Specialist Maths Unit 1 covered in 50 videos. Topics are Combinatorics, Vectors in the Plane Introduction to Proof. Free for any teacher to use.
QLD MATHS METHODS: UNIT 3: COMPLETE VIDEO PLAYLISTS
Every Topic from the new Queensland Maths Methods Unit 3 covered in videos. Logarithms, Derivatives and Integrals. Free for any teacher to use.
QLD MATHS METHODS: UNIT 1: COMPLETE VIDEO PLAYLISTS
Every Topic from the new Queensland Maths Methods Unit 1 covered in 80 videos. Arithmetic and Geometric Sequences, Functions and Graphs, Counting and Probability and even some Exponential Functions. Free for any teacher to use.
How to Innovate: Ask Forgiveness, Not Permission
Teachers often tell me that they’d love to be innovative. They’ve got a great idea that’s going to totally change their classroom/department/school. Students are going
How I Measure Student Effort: My online entry/exit form for managing a blended learning classroom
This week I was very honoured to be named a Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert. I follow quite a few MIEE’s on twitter and I’m always
Maths: It’s all, Like, Connected, Dude.
In my Maths Specialist class today my students were looking at circle theorems. Here’s some fun ones. Often in maths classes, these theorems are presented
Maths that students are proud of
My school held it’s annual “Showcase day” last Saturday. Parents, prospective parents and nosy parkers came to find out what we do all day. An
When you Assume you make an ASS out of U and ME (But sometimes it’s really useful for doing Maths and stuff)
In general assumptions are considered terrible. Don’t Assume, or you’ll make an ASS out of U and ME is something I’ve heard more than once
What Marathons and School Have in Common: repeated choices.
A few years ago I decided I should make an effort to get fit. It was September and I decided to go for a run.
How to have one really great idea in just ten minutes (and 99 bad ones).
You have a pressing problem. Something that needs a solution or something that needs to be improved. The problem could be any number of things.
