I wrote last week about how crowdsourcing was now a big part of mainstream culture from X-Factor to the Coalition government trying to cut laws. The response was great as it was when I tweeted about crowdsourcing an education business. It prompted me and the team at Zondle to consider whether we should crowdsource the [...]
Tom, a little quiz about Australia that might be useful. If you would like more and then set to add to Curriculum Catalyst then let me know,
Ben
Crowdsourcing is described by Wikipedia (whose founder hates the word) as:
“the out-sourcing of tasks traditionally done by a contractor or employee to a large group or community through an open call”.
It has been enhanced by Web 2.0 technologies in recent years but has a much, much longer history – Longitude was ‘discovered’ after a competition [...]
I have been working with the Zondle team for the past few months, specifically looking at its application for schools, colleges and english language learners. We have had some great success in getting teachers and especially GCSE students to add their own questions to the site and create games that support their revision process.
In order [...]
This Year 4 Test for Mathematics covers the KEY OBJECTIVES for Mathematics in Year 4.
I thought I would try to get behind then numbers and information given out so far about Academies. They seem set to be a bit feature of education in the UK over the coming years and it makes sense to get to grips with the issues.
So, about 1100 schools have applied to become Academies since [...]
Updated: Son is still 12 and now in Year 8. Grounded for 2 weeks (nothing major) but the issue remains. His entire homework delivery system is guided towards internet connected computers (love that, great stuff) but blocking facebook and other social media he uses (and when pressed he will use them all), also tends to [...]
#tmfuture – further thoughts
As a sometime presenter and lurker, and sponsor of a couple of teachmeets, I have been fascinated by the debate and thought over the last week or so on this topic. Its wonderfully summed up by @ewanmcintosh ’s blog earlier today but I also loved @chrisrat ’s post too which I thought [...]
Teachmeet – The Future
“Education is the new rock’n’roll!” – Tweet at TMNE09 after Gwyn Ap Hari had finished.
I have been to a couple of Teachmeets, presented at one, sponsored one and spent a great deal of time talking with various people including @tombarrett talking about Teachmeet and how it might grow.
The multiple posts do seem [...]
On May 13th The DFE published the provisional results of the English 2010 School Census. It’s encouraging to see these statistics published as it sets a benchmark for the new government’s education policies.
If you want to see the detail of these numbers then go to: http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SFR/s000925/index.shtml
Primary Schools
696,490 of children in English schools are considered to [...]