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Interesting post - about games in education, but actually about all learning experiences. My next big problem (wrong word?) is how to do this kind of stuff inside a school that's moving very slowly or not at all in this direction. I'm all for being disruptive, but what happens to those students who get taught by me in a student-centered, project based if they then move on to someone who has a more teacher centered approach the following year?

What happens to those students who get taught by me in a student-centered, project based if they then move on to someone who has a more teacher centered approach the following year? They either revert to being passive learners or they demand more from the next teacher who then has a choice.... Also, expectations from whole school need to be cranked up if slow in this regard. (However, I do understand why some schools are finding it hard to move on, it requires energy and drive to do this, things which are being drained from our schools and leaders because of so many pressures and anxieties) . As they say though, our students only get one shot at this ......

John shared this on twitter last week - I read it and am looking forward to watching the clips

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Article about primary school who encouraged students to compete with the best they could be, rather than with each other.

Some of the guides might be useful for teachers at your schools eg RSS. I did session on RSS last week and no-one was using it - very grim really!

7 great ideas to better involve parents in school (esp @ secondary)

I followed the links in this blog and like what I saw from learningfutures, thanks for posting

SOLO, which stands for Structure of Observed Learning Outcome, provides a systematic way of describing how a learner's performance grows in complexity when mastering many tasks. Suggested by @dougbelshaw as more relevant to 21st C schools than Bloom.

I think this could fit in with the Welsh curriculum quite nicely

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Use funds for kit and sessions like TeachMeets such as OAPMeets or something PeopleMeets - not in libraries and schools but pubs and cafes - also put books etc into pubs and cafes as well - not just digital wales but learning wales! & don't use funds for glossy booklets and stuff.

Nice ideas, but I'd question the effectiveness of putting books in pubs. No-one I know would put down a beer on a Saturday night so that they can read about photosynthesis or mitosis. Books in pubs are more likely to serve as coasters or something for people to throw when the fights break out! Or maybe I just have a poor choice of pub. ;)

has got to be the way forward

If schools are still stuck in 19/20Century models of learning so, it seems, are the universities.

Great post by Neil on who has the power to level the playing field when it comes to internet access in schools. Parallels with discussions that need to take place here in Wales