The Flipped Classroom

The “flipped” classroom is an idea that teachers shoot a video of a lesson, then make the video available online for learners to view at home. Class time is devoted to problem solving and guidance. It’s an approach that flips the delivery of the lesson to homework. Dorian Love posted an excellent piece with various [...]

What is online learning?

Besides operating within both the education and digital industry, the team members at Quirk Education have a sincere passion for online learning. We thought it would be a great idea to put together a nifty infographic which explains how online learning came about, and importantly, why it’s beneficial. This infographic serves to introduce you to [...]

The Law Of Thirds

One of the great boons of being an ICT teacher is that all my classes take place in the computer room. I don’t have to wait for the school to adopt a laptop per child programme to get computers into my lessons. In my classes I place all the course content, together with tutorials, SCORMs [...]

Free web-based Science, Biology & Geography simulations

The end is (almost) in sight for the chalkboard with hand-drawn diagrams of the way the world around us works. Thanks to Flash, a fairly simple to use Adobe product, quality interactive simulations are becoming more readily available on the internet that are well suited to classroom teaching. Pearson Education and ForgeFX have teamed up [...]

The importance of failure

Yesterday evening I went to my twelve year old son’s parent evening. Not a single teacher had anything negative to say about his progress. He is bright, working hard and achieving an A aggregate. He received a wonderful report, and I should have been very happy, but I wasn’t.

Curating knowledge: Why structured learning succeeds

By Anna Malczyk The advent of the internet heralded the “information age”, a time when vast quantities of human knowledge were available to anyone with a computer and internet connection. For education, the potential seemed endless: anybody could read and publish anything, meaning that anybody could teach and be taught. However, access did not equal [...]

Learning to Change – Changing to Learn

This video motivates the need for a re-evaluation of the classroom for an ever changing learner. We have a responsibility to really look at how we might make learning more inspiring, more related to what learners already know and more related to what they are interested in.

The social revolution in education

Social media statistics are mind-boggling. With 156 million blogs, 200 million Twitter accounts and 750 million Facebook users (accounting for around 40% of all internet users), not to mention literally hundreds of other social platforms around the world, social networking has entrenched itself as one of the top web activities. At the same time, these [...]

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