Mr Varty – Biology/Science Teacher
Recently I was having a look through the Professional Development Edmodo Community and I stumbled across “Smartphones in Education”, a free emagazine. This provide a detailed look at why and how smartphones and other technologies should be integrated in education.
The resource contains loads of lesson ideas and strategies that I know will help me make better use of our Anytime Anywhere Learning network that we are lucky to have available to us.
Dermot Doherty – Social Subjects
Following the Inter disciplinary learning (IDL) review I began to think about my practice and look for lessons that may be IDL.
As part of the first year social studies course pupils create a 60 second news brief (Modern studies section). I teach 3 groups of 1st years and did this lesson a few weeks ago with one set, it went well and pupils really enjoyed it.
I realised this lesson could be IDL with English as pupils are practising their extended writing skills, and after speaking to Mrs Neild in English she informed me pupils cover the 5w’s (Who, when, where, what, and why) when they do their own news reports. This link to English was strengthened by also covering the 5w’s as part of our task.
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