Psychology and the teacher Notes #3
More notes from Psychology and the Teacher, this time on Attention and perception
Academics talking about God
via 3quarksdaily
Bet you don’t know how to play Monopoly
This, via Marco and Waxy, is a little depressing. The proper rules are very different from the way I played. 1. If a player decides not to buy a property, it immediately goes up for auction by the bank and is sold to the highest bidder. This blew my mind. 2. Houses must be built, […]
Are you as clever as your tie suggests?
via guardian.co.uk Students with purple ties are gifted and talented. All the children at Crown Woods college in Greenwich, south London, know that. They are taught in separate colour-coordinated buildings, play in fenced-off areas and eat lunch at separate times. At 11 years old, all pupils at the college are streamed according to...
Teaching Maths with BYOT
Darren Kuropatwa has a great post here on trying out a “bring your own device” class. One thing else I would need: easy wifi.
Funny fight-scene
They don’t make them like they used to via 3quarksdaily
Maths and Cities
This is food for thought in its own right. With teacher googles on it is a rich seam of cross-curricular exploration. Will need to rejig it so it is Year 6 friendly but there is LOADS of stuff here to help children realise that maths is a language that can connect e.g. science, PSHE, history, […]
Taking student feedback seriously
Here’s something any teacher (and probably by extension any school) should be thinking about: How useful are the views of public school students about their teachers? Quite useful, according to preliminary results released on Friday from a $45 million research project that is intended to find new ways of distinguishing good...
Sound of the Funky Drummer
Gavin Bradley’s bit of musical archaeology is fantastic. Might use it to try to show students that remixing is different from copying.
Bev Evans has saved teachers 431 years of work
I love both Puttnam’s analysis at the end and the House of Lords technical problems at the beginning … Lord PuttnamTechnology in education today is absolutely fundamental. Here I must declare a series of important interests. When I worked for the department [of education] for six years between 1997 and 2003, I became...