mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: October 2014
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2014_10_01_archive.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Monday, 6 October 2014. Metaphors for Computing - A collaborative project. Many teachers have come to realise the power of metaphors. If this is not something you've tried or if you are slightly skeptical, I highly recommend this blog post. By Alex Quigley ( @HuntingEnglish. I've started creating some slides to document these and invite other teachers of Computing to contribute. Click here to edit/contribute.
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: My Classroom
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/p/my-classroom.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Will it get me more marks. Frequently students may ask if an extension task or extra project will get them more marks or extra credit. Sometimes these extra projects do count towards their final grade, sometimes they do not. This project shows that creativity and freedom alone are big enough incentives for students to achieve. The reward is the number of compliments they receive from their peers! By independen...
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: Top 6 websites for teaching, learning and CPD
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2012/06/top-6-websites-for-education-learning.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Tuesday, 5 June 2012. Top 6 websites for teaching, learning and CPD. I've been teaching for six years and had some excellent INSET and CPD during that time. Imagine if you could have the world's leading practitioners at your fingertips, without paying a penny or even leaving your house- you'd be silly not to take up the offer! Some of the best content in education is being created right now on these 6 sites.
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: September 2014
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2014_09_01_archive.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Sunday, 7 September 2014. Key Dates for Computing. Here are some useful dates to keep in your diary. You can use these to plan units with a specific focus:. Web We Want Festival (Ends May 2015). Tim Berener's Lee In Conversation. Computer Science Education Week. Please comment if you have other suggestions. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). What I'll be trying on the first day back. Code Avengers http:/ www.code...
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: 7 Mistakes I made whilst teaching Computing and what I will do differently next year
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2015/08/7-mistakes-i-made-whilst-teaching-Computing.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Friday, 7 August 2015. 7 Mistakes I made whilst teaching Computing and what I will do differently next year. Rote learning and testing. My leveraged observation coach had once advised me to use SPOT. To make students more independent and I now consider it a vital tool for teaching programming. Elf-Persevere, be resilient and keep debugging because every failure is one step closer to success. Linked to the prev...
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: Open questions and lesson starts
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2014/05/open-questions-in-computer-science.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Saturday, 3 May 2014. Open questions and lesson starts. I cam across two excellent blogs about " Do Now's. And lesson starts in general. Some example Do Now's from a unit of work about Python. Slow down, do less, do it better. After observing lessons and thinking about the burnout at the end of last term, I promised myself to slow down, do less and do "it" better. Having tried slower paced starts, I find t...
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: Lessons learnt from setting up a new Computing department
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2014/06/lessons-learnt-from-setting-up-new.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Wednesday, 25 June 2014. Lessons learnt from setting up a new Computing department. This post is a reflection on my last 12 months as the lead teacher of a new Computing department. As I transition to the role of Head of Department, there are many things that I have learnt, wish I knew from the beginning and things that I would do differently. Observe your peers in non-graded observations. Visit other scho...
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: July 2014
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Saturday, 12 July 2014. Learning to get better. We've been waiting for a return visit from HMI for the past three weeks. In preparation, we've had two inspection teams from Outstanding schools and an actual HMI come in to look at the school. There are a lot more hands up than I realise. Body language matters a lot. In addressing the second issue, I've been more aware of when I'm giving instructions, where I am...
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: How culture affects teaching, learning and attention spans
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2012/09/how-culture-affects-teaching-learning.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Tuesday, 25 September 2012. How culture affects teaching, learning and attention spans. I haven't blogged for a while here as I recently moved away from the busy hustle and bustle of London to take up a teaching post in Seychelles. One thing became apparent very quickly, Seychelles is like 1970's Britain in many ways. You can read more about this on my Seychelles blog. 25 September 2012 at 10:41. Three years a...
mrlaulearning.blogspot.com
Look Who's Learning Too: Top 10 Websites for GCSE Computing resources
http://mrlaulearning.blogspot.com/2014/06/top-10-websites-for-gcse-computing.html
Look Who's Learning Too. Documenting learning strategies for the uncertain and exciting future. Wednesday, 25 June 2014. Top 10 Websites for GCSE Computing resources. There’s a lot of resources out there for teaching Computing. Finding resources is never an issue, there are anywhere between 10-30 new resources uploaded onto CAS. Wonderful site of resources and thinking from CAS master teacher Simon Johnson. All round site covering Computing, ICT and IGCSE. Ms Dennig also teaches Computer Science to her y...
SOCIAL ENGAGEMENT