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		<title>Final Apple RTC event of 2010 – 18th November</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just a reminder about the final free Apple Regional Training Centre event of the year and the last &#8216;open&#8217; public event for a while. We currently have 5 spaces left so sign up below! We will cover: 1) A pedagogical framework for thinking about using technology and mobile devices in schools 2) Hands on session [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overcoming ‘functional fixedness’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have recently finished reading Lucas and Claxton’s &#8216;New Kinds of Smart&#8217; and was struck by the idea of ‘functional fixedness’. They describe it as ‘the inability to see more than the most obvious and habitual affordances (ideas about the perceived uses of a thing)’. I came across this concept before in Daniel Pink’s &#8216;Drive&#8216; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nickdenniscom/blog/~3/i5ByB1Re51U/</link>
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		<title>Technology on trial</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Original article published in the October edition of Independent Schools Magazine. Will bringing iPads and iPod Touches into the classroom distract students from the main business of learning? As a new two-year trial using Apple mobile technology in lessons gets underway at Felsted School, Essex, assistant headmaster Dr Nick Dennis explains the reasoning behind it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Classroom Experiment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have watched with interest the reaction to the BBC Schools’ Season programme ‘The Classroom Experiment’ over the last week, in particular, the role of Dylan Wiliam. Many of the comments I have heard suggested he was ‘nothing special’ to recognising the validity of some of his ideas. What struck me was the change in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nickdenniscom/blog/~3/brv_IVZk5wQ/</link>
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		<title>SCVNGR Reflections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have been talking up the potential of SCVNGR since I first heard about it earlier this year as I thought it would provide a vehicle for games based learning at the school and beyond. Initially marketed as an electronic scavenger hunt, the direction and feel of the application was changed during the course of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nickdenniscom/blog/~3/JDKnyhGWIEQ/</link>
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		<title>Busy times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The start of term is usually very busy but this year is unusual in that we have a number of new projects running. The first is our brand new MIS which looks fantastic and we are currently ironing out the issues as they arise. A lot of thought has gone into this in-house system and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nickdenniscom/blog/~3/RUey8OIGyk0/</link>
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		<title>Apple RTC event at Felsted 16th September</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The first Apple Regional Training Centre event at Felsted is approaching. I am particularly looking forward to it as it will start our own research project into mobile learning and we are delighted to share some of our thinking and work using Apple technologies. We will cover: 1) A pedagogical framework for thinking about using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nickdenniscom/blog/~3/2fHFOgYvdFM/</link>
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		<title>Mobile Phone Safety Advice for Parents / Carers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Highland, we have a partnership approach to promoting e-safety by encouraging children and young people to use new technologies safely and responsibly. This has involved a programme of education about internet safety in our school communities. As part of our approach we would like to offer all Parents and Carers of pupils in Highland [...]<img alt="" border="0">]]></description>
		<link>http://highlandesafety.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/mobile-phone-safety-advice-for-parents-carers/</link>
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		<title>#edjournal – more than a cupful</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reminded recently how much I love Gustave Flaubert after absorbing Denis Shemilt’s latest chapter on improving historical understanding and developing historical consciousness in pupils (a later blog post). I was introduced to Flaubert by my departing A Level English teacher Mr Johnson and I was struck by Flaubert’s turn of phrase and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Nickdenniscom/blog/~3/qFx-LKkyMn8/</link>
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		<title>David Cameron and historical learning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect that you would have seen/heard David Cameron’s comments about the ‘Special Relationship’ this week. One comment in particular has drawn a lot of attention: &#8220;We were the junior partner in 1940 when we were fighting the Nazis.” On the surface, it does display a poor grasp of the Second World War but I [...]]]></description>
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