A very big well done to all at Musselburgh Grammar School and Depute Head Teacher Ollie Bray for their on-going ground breaking work.
Full article here
I am looking forward to seeing this project rolled out across East Lothian’s High School clusters next year.
I have just finished School for the day so I am having a rumage through the ‘tweets’ in my twitter account.
This just came through from the ‘Beeb‘.
One Laptop Per Child is upon us!
Photo Credit: BBC
This week I, along with a number of colleagues, ventured down to London to represent Learning and Teaching Scotland at the International Handheld Learning Conference 2008 . It was held at the Barbican Brewery.
Ollie Bray (East Lothian)
Ian Stuart (Argyll and Bute)
Mark Pentleton (East Ayreshire)
Derek Robertson (Learning and Teaching Scotland)
Laurie O’Donnell (Learning and Teaching Scotland)
Ewan McIntosh [...]
The International Handheld Learning Conference 2008 takes place this week (13-15th) at The Barbican in London. From East Lothian, both Ollie Bray and I have been asked to host spotlight sessions by Learning and Teaching Scotland. My session will be similar to the seminar that Alicia MacFarlane and I hosted at the Scottish Learning festival:
‘Using [...]
The Scottish Learning Festival takes place on the 24th and 25th of September this year. As always there is a wealth of keynotes and Seminars. This year along with Alicia MacFarlane I will be hosting a seminar on our recent Sony PSP project.
‘Using the Sony PSP as a learning tool in the primary classroom’
If you [...]
Derek Robertson has set up a Glow Group at National level for the Consalarium-
“If you are a teacher in Scotland and you have access to Glow then please feel free to join our national group. Just select this link, login and when the page appears click the ‘request access’ button”
I am hoping to use this group [...]
Following a few sessions of the game Maths Training and a chat with Norma Macphesron, East Lothian’s Advisory Teacher of Mathematics.
Here are a few more thoughts:
Pros-
Flash Cards are excellent for learning to recognise number spatial patterns.
The Cells games are good for practising numeracy skills (especially tables).
On the whole a useful method of formative assessment. The [...]
Tonight I took my first challenge of the game ‘Math’s Training’ on the Nintendo DS Lite.
I have been curious about this game and its potential to enhance Numeric skills. My first impressions are that it is ‘mediocre’. I am not entirely sure that it is any better than any of the other ‘Brain’ games currently [...]
I had forgotten to mention this in my last post- but it is such a classic example of the ‘Digital Immigrant/Native’ Society in which we live, it merits its own.
The pupils at Camie Primary School were using iMovie to edit their video footage (timing and title slides to enhance etc). Following a brief lesson on [...]
This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the Sony PSP. They are exploring the potential of this hand-held device as a learning tool. Today we were also joined by Derek Robertson from Learning and Teaching Scotland. Derek has written a summary of his visit on the Consolarium Weblog here.
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