Technology for Learning Blog

Playing email tennis at the moment - I was doing so well a couple of weeks back too!

One gem from the 5th November was the sample implementation plan EEF gave. I really like the fact that it focuses on the impact on the learner and the 'active ingredients'. Nice to see the word fidelity in there and giving short, medium and long-term plans helps too:

Source: educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/public/files/Publications/Campaigns/Implementation/EEF-Flash-Marking-Implementation-Logic-Model.pdf

Today a long journey in the car (4 hours to be precise) afforded me the opportunity to catch up on a couple of podcasts I've been wanting to listen to for a while. The first is a piece on the evolution of Facebook's community guidelines - what is (to them) acceptable to post or not. There are other articles I've watched on this issue - filter bubbles etc, but this one does quite a good job on presenting the timeline of the development of their guidelines. It will be interesting to see where they go with this as very few of the younger generation (school age) go anywhere near the Facebook platform (they use their products however, namely Instagram) and the older generation (mine for example) are becoming more disillusioned with the data breaches and growing lack of confidence in the 'purity' of posts on their wall. Take a listen for yourself:

In the latest episode of Seth Godin's podcast, Akimbo, he talks about games. Early on in the episode Seth mentions that "all of us play games". This resonated with me since we have a parents' workshop on computer gaming coming up on November 22nd. Many of our parents, including myself prior to listening to this podcast, would say "I am not a gamer". Seth goes on to explain that many of our day-to-day decisions are part of the game of life - what to wear each day or what we post on our social media platforms. I'm considering using this analogy in the workshop - I'll have to listen to it again a couple of times over the next week to help me make the decision on whether or not to use it. Listen for yourself to Seth's podcast below:

I suppose this one is cheating a little bit......

#105: A Tip, Tool, Text & Tutorial

I don’t know if you are like me, but on the first day of each month I get a small nagging feeling that I should take the opportunity to do something healthier or change an annoying habit. Thankfully the feeling quickly wears off as you progress further into the month. I suppose it’s something akin to the New Year resolution(s) we struggle to keep. So, with that in mind, and the fact that I’m writing this on the 1^st of November, I’ve made a commitment to myself (having read this by Seth Godin) to write a blog post every day this month. Here a link to my daily blog for November, if you would like to follow my endeavour then do please subscribe.

Just a quick post to kick off the November challenge of writing a blog post each day for the month of November. Reflections from today.....

Liking this video produced at the end of last term. Good to hear James' dulcet tones on it:

Must remember to use the 'Ctrl & H' more often to get to pages I've opened throughout the day.