UWCSEA Teachers

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

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

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

"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."

"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."

Games by subject. Really good list of excellent games

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

"Sadly, however, the wider educational impact of wiring up schools and homes and giving computers to kids has been disappointing. "

"Sugar is a learning platform that reinvents how computers are used for education. Collaboration, reflection, and discovery are integrated directly into the user interface. Sugar promotes "studio thinking" and "reflective practice". Through Sugar's clarity of design, children and teachers have the opportunity to use computers on their own terms. Students can reshape, reinvent, and reapply both software and content into powerful learning activities. Sugar's focus on sharing, criticism, and exploration is grounded in the culture of free software (FLOSS)."

Numbeo is the world's largest database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide. Numbeo provides current and timely information on world living conditions including cost of living, housing indicators, health care, traffic, crime and pollution.

This is a guide to holding a Turtle Art coding event

Andrew McCarthy's site with useful info on using tech for formative assessment.

Wendy Gorton's session on Reading & Writing workshop from the Google Apps Summit in Singapore

A variety of apps for taking digital notes.  Check the comments too - some good ideas there.