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Contents contributed and discussions participated by Andrew Williamson

Andrew Williamson

Teach Writing - 1 views

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    Graves approach to writing stimuli. Some of this could be useful for writers workshop and WUSW etc 
Andrew Williamson

Connectivism: new paradigm or fascinating pot-pourri? Calvani. - 0 views

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    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."
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Let's "CHAT" about Vygotsky ............ - 1 views

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

Critique of Connectivism - PhD Wiki - 1 views

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    A critique of connectivism worth a read. 
Andrew Williamson

My List: A Collection on "NFPS" (North,Fitzroy,Primary,School) | Diigo - 2 views

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    The Diigo app for android for some reason doesn't let you share links to a specific group. But you can share to a particular list. This is a list for NFPS I created so can eventually have the stuff transfered to the NFPS Group. You might want to subscribe to it in your reader for updates of cool stuff. 
Andrew Williamson

Draw It Live - 0 views

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    Could come in handy if people want to collaborate on their whiteboards etc 
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All4Free | Mathematics and Multimedia - 0 views

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    Some great resources here. I had a quick look at the algebra stuff and if you are going to teach it might be worth a look
Andrew Williamson

13-Year-Old Makes Solar Power Breakthrough by Harnessing the Fibonacci Sequence | Inhab... - 0 views

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    Another article about this 13 year old whiz kid. Uses his knowledge of the fibonacci sequence to create a kick arse solar cell tree and then patents it!
Andrew Williamson

The Secret of the Fibonacci Sequence in Trees - 0 views

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    Check this kid out! I wonder if he has a blog? Either way, this is a great piece by a 13 year old on fibonacci stuff. 
Andrew Williamson

Better control in Google Sites with page-level permissions - Docs Blog - 0 views

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    Woo Hoo! At last we can now control page level permissions in Google sites. This could be a game changer for schools who have been using Google Ed Apps. 
Andrew Williamson

eManipulatives - Hundred Chart (Grade K) - 0 views

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    Have a smartboard?? 
Andrew Williamson

Egyptian tomb mystery may be world's first protractor - physics-math - 29 July 2011 - N... - 0 views

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    This could be a great mathematical conversation starter. Awesome for those students that are into Codes or hieroglyphs or even just plain old ancient egyptian history. Either way a sure fire way of getting the mathematical creative juices flowing. 
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Vi Hart: Blog - 0 views

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    @vihartvihart
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Cool Math & Physics Blogs | Degrees of Freedom, Scientific American Blog Network - 0 views

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    Have some students who just might be into blogging about maths? Then they might want to follow and/or add some of these to their blog roll. 
Andrew Williamson

fractions, decimals and percents - YouTube - 0 views

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    American but cold be some useful ideas here. 
Andrew Williamson

Streaming primary school pupils labels them for life | Education | The Guardian - 1 views

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    Streaming, tracking, targeted teaching does it work?
Andrew Williamson

Why Mathematics is a Foreign Language in America and What to Do about It. - 1 views

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    Follow this blog for some great discussion about mathematics, this post you might want to link it to your class blog so parents can have a read. 
Andrew Williamson

MathsLinks - A directory of useful objects found on the web for teaching Maths. - 0 views

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    Skill based learning, but could be useful if doing differentiated rotations in maths lesson and want to target a particular skill that the students may need to help in their understanding/solving of an extended problem. 
Andrew Williamson

Supercomputer cracks sixty-trillionth binary digit of Pi-squared, gets beaten up by nor... - 0 views

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    Read it, Google anything you don't understand, discuss. Great conversation starter for any maths lesson... Ok so maybe upper primary and above....
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