Posted in News, Web Literacy on Aug 2nd, 2007 No Comments »
So says the title of another BBC article on the cyber-bullying YouTube problem.
This worries and saddens me as I can see the quick result of this will be even more aggressive and restrictive censoring of the internet by school network managers. There is so much excellent material available on YouTube and other similar sites [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jul 1st, 2007 1 Comment »
Following on from my previous post about GapMinder, Hans Rosling has made another inspiring talk at a TED conference.
His use of data continues to inspire me and pushes my thoughts on using this software in the classroom. With the abolition of data handling coursework next year more time will be freed up to look [...]
Posted in Ed Technology on Jun 5th, 2007 1 Comment »
At the end of an ordinary Year 9 lesson on scatter graphs I had a flash of inspiration and remembered the fantastic Gapminder World tool courtesy of Google and Gapminder.
For the uninitiated this is a dynamic graphing package populated with a range of data about countries covering the last 30 years. You choose [...]
