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Evaluation, a 3rd way for the 3rd Sector?
Creative Commons, Open Government Licensing and PDFs
By: Simon Knight
On: 25th August 2012

Over the summer I’ve been working on a project the Open Resource Bank for Interactive Teaching (ORBIT) – an OER wiki hosting Teacher Education resources for Professional Development on interactive pedagogy, particularly using ICT.  It’s still a work in progress prior to the project end in September, and to an extent it’ll still be in progress after that (although, to an extent we very much want it to be – it is a wiki after all!), but do give it a look.  The site also hosts a few other teacher education Wikis (OER4School more >

Innovations in Learning – Badges for accreditation
By: Simon Knight
On: 11th August 2012

The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology recently released a fantastic report – “Innovating Pedagogy 2012” (pdf) (Creative Commons licenced too).  The report offers 10 innovations with the potential to change education in the short to medium term.  It starts with a two page executive summary – so if you don’t read anything else, take a look at that!

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Coding for...the innately able
Coding for...the usual suspects
By: Simon Knight
On: 25th July 2012

Is coverage of new coding initiatives just reaching the same old suspects, or are we (and should we be) drawing in new people?

This is the question I want to look at now, following on from last week's blog which outlined some rough ideas about levels of activity in computer use.

There are broadly two camps in the push for more coding:

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Coding for Kids
By: Simon Knight
On: 16th July 2012

Recently I’ve been thinking about the increasing push for children to learn to code.  
One thing I’ve been particularly interested in is the reason we’ve suddenly become so interested in coding. The benefits outlined in CAS’ ‘Computer Science: A curriculum for schools’ (.pdf) relate to:

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