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8 iPads in the classroom | #8iPads

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1. Saving work to the Documents apps and using share to iTunes to make a copy from Digital Roadtrip on Vimeo.

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Printing student’s work in Progress from iPads to a folder on your laptop.

If your students are not writing into a virtual space from their iPads, for example a blog, wiki or shared app like Evernote, you will struggle to monitor their progress. So here is an awesomely nifty way of capturing evidence of “work in progress”.

The joy of this is that all the files neatly arrive in one folder on computer. If the learners label the files as you have them named in your mark book, you will have an instant overview of who has handed work in.

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Jacqueline Wilson: ‘Spelling is not something that seems to be taught at schools’

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The best-selling author, who receives hundreds of fan letters each week, told The Independent that children from Eastern Europe, Spain and Portugal all had better spelling and grammar than British children.

“They’re writing in English, and apologising for their English, yet these letters will be more grammatical and spelt more properly than [those from] our own children. It’s quite extraordinary.” Around 90 per cent of children who write to her cannot even spell Jacqueline correctly, she said, adding that standards had slipped in the two decades that children had regularly written to her.

via Jacqueline Wilson: ‘Spelling is not something that seems to be taught at schools’ – Education News – Education – The Independent.

Danish government steps in to end teacher lock-out

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This month-long teachers’ strike in Denmark – over pay and conditions – has been very under-reported in the UK. This comes via the French news agency AFP.

Denmark’s government on Thursday moved to end a bitter month-long dispute with teachers over working hours that has left 800,000 pupils out of classes.

"We have reached a point at which the government finds it necessary to intervene," Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt told reporters at a news conference.

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Michael Gove calls for longer school days and shorter holidays

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UK Education secretary Michael Gove calls for longer days, shorter holidays:

Mr Gove said he wanted to see schools introduce a longer day for pupils, suggesting that some are already “recognising that we need to change the structure of the school term and in particular that it is poorer children that lose out from longer holidays.”

“If we look at the length of the school day in England, the length of the summer holiday and we compare it to the extra tuition and support children are receiving elsewhere then we are fighting, or running, in this global race in a way which ensures we already start with a significant handicap,” he said.

“It is also the case that some of the best schools in the country are moving to a longer school day as well.”

via Michael Gove calls for longer school days and shorter holidays – UK Politics – UK – The Independent.

Channel 4 Education and Chunk let teens turn their sleep into a game with new app | The Drum

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Channel 4 Education and Chunk have today launched a new app, which lets teenagers record their sleep patterns, which is then used to build a ‘track’ for a game.

Called Zeds, the tracks created by the apps reflect the pattern of the sleep, changing features as you move from light to deep, and aims to show teenagers the effects of poor quality of sleep.

via Channel 4 Education and Chunk let teens turn their sleep into a game with new app | The Drum.