During our Technology Week this year, one of the activities involved students using our school’s 3D Printer Pens to improve their knowledge and understanding of 3D shapes. This follows on from last year’s lessons with the 3D Printer Pens in…
During our TBS Conference the other week, I attended a 4-day leadership course delivered by Karen Ardley Associates. As the course was specifically tailored for middle leaders, I came away with many practical insights that I could readily apply to…
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) refers to the trend in which students/employees bring their own mobile technologies (usually smartphones) into their place of work or study. BYOD has become increasingly common in recent years owing to the fact that mobile…
Following on from last year’s Safer internet Day, I just wanted to share these assembly scripts I wrote in collaboration with our on-site educational psychologist, Carolina. We carefully differentiated these Digital Citizenship & E-Safety assemblies this year according to the…
Shaping school culture begins with effective leadership, which then permeates and fosters positive change throughout the school. This is because effective leadership influences everyone who works for a school, and everyone of these staff members is either directly or indirectly…
Traditionally, the general consensus has been to get as much formal education as you can early in life, and then reap the rewards for the rest of your career. However, this is no longer enough. With the great number of…
Depending on the task to be performed, computer programs can be written in high-level languages or low-level languages. Most programmers write programs in high-level languages such as Java, Python, Visual Basic and many more. High-level languages are portable and can…
Flipped learning is a pedagogical model in which the teacher delivery during in-class time is flipped with the homework elements of a course. As a type of blended learning technique, students can watch relevant videos at home, which have been…
Aside from Bee-Bots, there has not been much on the market to help children in Early Years (3 years and older) to develop their computational thinking skills. When I discovered Cubetto therefore, I was keen to purchase one and trial…
In modern personal computers, most offline-storage is also used as secondary storage. The main difference between the two terms is in how these storage devices are used. Whereas secondary storage is fixed into the computer for long term use (e.g.…
