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flash games for maths, colourful moving black line masters but some kids love em

An essay I wrote inquiring into the notion of everyday creativity and its significance in its application in the education context. If you have time and are interested... :-)

Google site I created for Early Years PD some useful links and pedagogical ideas etc. 

Simple but effective discussion about what is student centred learning. 

Educating for thinking is essential for fostering creative thoughts imagination is part of that. Metacognition is part of the minds eye

Lots of great multimedia and links between literacy and art 

Fantastic article that discusses the complexities of being a teacher that in an impoverished school. A must read for perspective. 

Why do we bother... What I mean by this is... Dah!

I need to be reminded sometimes... I'm a softy ;) Oh, they forgot one of the most important aspects re classroom management. Learning and engagement. 

The title says it all and it make sense. 

Some amazing ideas for whole staff day PD. Lot of creativity being stimulated here. Incubation, incubation, incubation. 

Another paper questioning connectivist claims that it is a learning theory.  "It seems that here, thrown away false modesty, connectivism is putting forward its candidacy to represent a new paradigm, even if this application is not supplied with a consistent reference theoretical frame."

For or against connectivism as a learning theory. Some interesting points here. 

As games, particularly virtual worlds, become increasingly popular and as they begin to approximate large scale social systems in size and nature, they have also become spaces where play and learning have merged in fundamental ways. More important is the idea that the kind of learning that happens in the spaces of these massively multiplayer online games is fundamentally different than what we have come to consider as standard pedagogical practice. The distinction the authors make is that traditional paradigms of instruction have addressed learning as "learning about," while these new forms of learning deal with knowledge through the dynamic of "learning to be." It is the authors' contention that the experiences offered within virtual worlds provide a fundamentally different way of thinking about

A site that gives some great ideas for lessons, other relevant maths sites, software and videos about all areas of the maths curriculum. 

Thanks Garth, you're an ICT star!

cool for early years counting by 2s

Skratch is a simple program for children to use and track what books they have finished reading online.

List of 10 maths websites that are great for students, teachers and parents!

Maths learning games