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Today and tomorrow, the S1 cohort at North Berwick High School are all spending a couple of hours in groups working outdoors on some mathematical problem solving activities.  Today’s sessions all went really well – thank to Liz Brookes for organizing the activities, and making it out to North Berwick despite car problems!  Liz took some photos, so hopefully I’ll have something to post here tomorrow.

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Whilst we are still waiting for another installment of “Open Source for Beginners”, check out Revolution OS – a great documentary about Open Source.

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Part 3 of this series is taking me a long time to publish.  I’ve written 4 different drafts already, but can’t quite get it right.  Meantime, imagine a day without Open Source…

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This interview is full of great, thought provoking stuff.  You’ll need to listen yourself, but I particularly liked his response to a question about spending on technology in education.  He says something like “spending on educational technology is a bad idea [with some exceptions]… if there’s one thing you could to do to make better experiences in education it’s smaller class sizes -  more interaction with passionate adults who have time and ability to focus on kids.”

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Via Slashdot I spotted this  New York Times article: Seeing No Progress, Some Schools Drop Laptops. Not very cheery reading for the Learning Hubs team.

Or maybe it’s just another reminder that “spray and pray” doesn’t work.

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