There are some truly superb bloggers out there with some brilliant ideas that are subject specific. This is just a starting point that will be updated regularly
Generic Ideas
Raid my Pinterest boards at http://www.pinterest.com/neilatkin/
Thunks
A Thunk is a beguilingly simple-looking question about everyday things that stops you in your tracks and helps you start to look at the world in a whole new light. here
Beat the Text
Costs £2.50 , but using this link you can get the first one for free to a single mobile number. See if your students can answer a question before the text comes back.
Metacognition
Getting people thinking about thinking
Slideshare from David Didau @learningspy here
100WC
100 word challenge is a brilliant concept that can be used for homework, cross curricular projects etc. The premise is that the students are not just writing for the teacher, they are writing for a greater audience. You can find it here
Geography
John Sayers has a great blog on Case Studies here
History
Russell Tarr (as in Mr Gove’s Mister Man) has some superb resources here
Great Research
John Hattie
Hattie’s Research is possibly the most influential in all of education . You can find the main bodies of his research on his website here . This also includes links to the Visible Learning project. The work of Carol Dweck and the growth mindset is also on the same site
Desirable Difficulties and Interleaving
The work by Robert Bjork gives an alternative view to the established wisdom of education
You can find out more about the research here
Spaced Learning
Radical ideas from Monkseaton School here which uses learning spaced with other activities -make up your own mind !
Kids Teaching Themselves – Hole in the Wall project
The hole in the wall project by Sugata Mitra where children with no prior experience of technology learned how to use computers and then taught others
Sugata Mitra: Kids can teach themselves
SOLO Taxonomy
Great Posts by @leading learner here that outline SOLO in practice
or my blog here
Performance vs Learning
Alfie Kohn has a compelling rant here
Robert Bjork here
My blog on higher achievers here
3 Act Maths
See the awesome Dan Meyer’s work here
Flipping lessons
An infographic here
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