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Typographic Dating Game - learn how to match fonts with different strategies. Beautiful design and informative too! 

Games by subject. Really good list of excellent games

"Many of the questions and tasks we are developing in the York Science project can be described as 'diagnostic'. That is, not only do they tell you which students have some understanding of the idea you are interested in, they also give you some information about the misconceptions of those who do not use the accepted scientific explanation."

"A diagnostic question (or task) is one which provides evidence of a learner's understanding of a specific idea. The pupil's response gives us reasonably clear evidence about whether he or she understands, or does not understand, this idea. Sometimes the question can also help us to diagnose what a pupil's difficulty is - why he or she is not giving the correct answer. If so, this may make it easier to respond effectively and help pupils move their understanding on."

Classroom Assessment: Minute by Minute, Day by Day In classrooms that use assessment to support learning, teachers continually adapt instruction to meet student needs.

"OILING THE HINGES - REFINING MY CONSTRUCTION OF HINGE QUESTION November 3, 2013 · by Harry Fletcher-Wood · in AfL, Classroom, CPD, History"

"Diagnostic Questions Mathematics 1725 free maths diagnostic questions (hinge questions) to identify student misconceptions. Join 1541 other teachers in sharing questions and creating quizzes."

"DO THEY UNDERSTAND THIS WELL ENOUGH TO MOVE ON? INTRODUCING HINGE QUESTIONS August 17, 2013 · by Harry Fletcher-Wood · in AfL, CPD. · "

Database of lessons for teaching computational thinking in a variety of areas of the curriculum across age groups.

The importance of training teachers when introducing technology.

Wow! Movenote lets you add video comments to anything in Google Drive. You can then embed the video together with the item in a Google site (or elsewhere) Great for making thinking visible.

A while back, now-former Pixar storyboard artist Emma Coats tweeted a series of pearls of narrative wisdom she had gleaned from working at the studio. This list of 22 rules of storytelling was widely embraced as it was applicable to any writer or anyone who was in the business of communicating (which is pretty much everyone, including software developers). And much of its advice (e.g. "You gotta keep in mind what's interesting to you as an audience, not what's fun to do as a writer. They can be very different") is still as applicable as ever. Thanks to the efforts of one fan, though, the rules may now become even more eminently shareable.

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized By @joeberkowitz http://t.co/4rapIbGYav via @FastCoCreate

Pixar's 22 Rules of Storytelling--Visualized By @joeberkowitz http://t.co/4rapIbGYav via @FastCoCreate

Great place to print canvas in SG. 

"What does it mean to see the world like a designer? What is "maker thinking?" What kinds of thinking dispositions characterize a tinkerer? These are some of the questions at the heart of the Agency by Design project, a multi-year research and development initiative at Project Zero, a research organization at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. "