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Global Jaya has just purchased a K-12 ManageBac Curriculum Account
Global Jaya International School has purchased a full account for Year k-12 for ManageBac, this means from next year all PYP, MYP and DP curriculum documents and calendar items will be seamlessly integrated. Firstly, we need to get all Heads of Year … Continue reading
Resourcing, textbooks and a meeting
Please be advised that we have a series of meetings with a representative from Oxford University Press about various publications, textbooks and other teaching resources available this morning. The Board Room is booked from 9.00 until 10.00 and then free … Continue reading
Top 10 pages on my blog and search terms that found it
Having been blogging for about a year now, I have begun to spend some time examining the blog statistics, which pages are popular and which search terms people use to find my blog among others. I have graphed the Top … Continue reading
Using Twitter on Science Field Trips – Twittering on Pramuka Island
Something I have been experimenting with lately has been using twitter to supplement our learning. I’ve decided that Twitter™ is a great tool for Field Trips. One of the advantages is that many of our students already have smart phones … Continue reading
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Using Twitter in the classroom as an Audience Participation Device or Clicker
For some time I have been a fan of clicker cases, they are similar to the buttons used in the TV show Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, and are a well documented means of improving student learning by providing … Continue reading
iThink I need iPads in the classroom
Sure they’re bright and shiny, but are they really learning devices? We’ll take a close look at how exactly these technologies are being leveraged in the classroom and what the best Apps are for educational purposes. We’ll also explore some … Continue reading
GADGETS GO TO SCHOOL
GADGETS GO TO SCHOOL Pandji Alfi, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 10/04/2011 3:20 PM “If we teach today’s students as we taught yesterday’s, we rob them of tomorrow” – John Dewey In this age of multiple gadgetry, the way … Continue reading
Applying science to the teaching of science
An alternative vote May 12th 2011 | from the print edition AS DOES much else in the universe, education moves in cycles. The 1960s and 1970s saw a swell of interest in teaching styles that were less authoritarian and hierarchical … Continue reading
White Boarding
White boarding is a term used to describe the student use of a 3’ x 2’ sheet of tile board to record group work. White boarding was first used in physics classes (Wells, Hestenes, and Swackhamer, 1995). White boarding requires … Continue reading
Teaching and Learning in Indonesia 