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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This morning I visited Campie Primary School. Campie are hosting a trial of the hand held device the Sony PSP.
The purpose of this trial is to investigate the potential of the Sony PSP in the context of learning. In December Derek Robertson (from Learning and Teaching Scotland), Karen Robertson Alicia MacFarlane and Steven Wood (Campie) [...]
As I mentioned I attended a number of Seminars at the BETT show. Here is my summary of the best ones (I apologise if they are not entirely accurate, but I am reading my scribbled shorthand)
Day 1.
Derek Robertson was there spreading the word about the hand held learning trials that he is currently leading throughout [...]
This week and weekend I, along with a number of other colleagues from Scotland, attended the BETT Show at London’s Olympia. BETT is one of the world’s largest educational technology events. It had been my intention to write one or two posts during my time there, however time simply did not allow.
One train journey, three [...]
I have got a lot of reading to do on Games based learning, but here is quick insight into what I think of the Nintendo DS so far.
Santa Claus was very generous to me this year. Following a brief play around with Derek Robertson’s Nintendo DS, I was convinced that I wanted one for Christmas. [...]
