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Sunday, May 26, 2019

3 reasons why it's unwise to draw Bloom's Taxonomy as a pyramid

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In my last post I looked the different ways Bloom's Taxonomy is presented in diagrams, and by far the most common is the famous Pyramid...
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Saturday, May 18, 2019

How do we visualise Bloom's Taxonomy?

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I've been thinking a lot about Bloom's Taxonomy lately and just how influential it is to teachers' thinking. The more deeply I ...
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Sunday, May 12, 2019

Three ideas for defusing the pedagogy wars

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There's been a battle for teachers' (and parents') hearts and minds over the last few decades that, now appearing on twitter, c...
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Sunday, March 3, 2019

The ultimate formative feedback? Tales from the whiteboard classroom.

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The idea is extremely (and deceptively) simple: Cover your classroom with whiteboards, then think about how to get students to spend most o...

Some lessons work best when you do (almost) nothing

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Returning to my blog after many years absence, I found this Feb 2017 post in my "drafts" folder, waiting for posting.  I think it...
Sunday, August 2, 2015

"Why are we learning algebra?"

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It had been several weeks since my Year 7 class had the discussion of why we were learning algebra, so I was taken off guard when the peren...
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Thursday, July 9, 2015

Wormholes and Tesseracts in the Classroom - Part 2

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In Part A I looked at some inspiring ideas about teaching in the movie Interstellar. Here are some ideas for using some Interstellar cont...