Wilson Waffling

Waffle about mathematics, science, technology and teaching. All my posts reflect my own personal views. Wilson Waffling covers topics and practical ideas for students studying primary education and NQT primary school teachers. It is supported by blog posts. Wilson Waffling is presented by Ian Wilson, a Senior Lecturer in Primary Education http://wilsonwaffling.co.uk

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Promoting Engagement - Questions and Answers

Promoting Engagement – Questions and Answers

You might have missed: Promoting Engagement – Questions and Answers Promoting Engagement – Using Emojis Are we Robot proof? What new learning? Live Stream: Supporting children with SEND Learning Activities 5: Shadows

Preamble

In the last post/video in this series I looked at using emojiswithin online sessions to promote engagement. If you read that then you will know that I mentioned that the next…

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Promoting Engagement – Using Emojis Preamble I recently was asked to provide an international webinar for Cambridge University Press on how to encourage engagement during online digital learning sessions.

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Are we Robot proof? What new learning?

Are we Robot proof? What new learning?

Preamble

I’ve been working through a presentation I gave at university called ‘Are we robot-proof?’ Within this presentation, I based my reflections on a few academic texts but mainly “Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the age of artificial intelligence” by Aoun 2017.

In the previous blog posts, I have discussed the current situation with respect to technology and learning and how change is…

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Live Stream: Supporting children with SEND Preamble Originally, the tag line for this blog was Teaching, Tech and Twaddle! I am not too sure whether what I talk about is really twaddle or not!

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Learning Activities 5: Shadows The sun is out, the sky is blue! Sorry that I am a bit behind with the activities, real life job has priority :).

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Learning Activities 4: Colours of Day

Learning Activities 4: Colours of Day

Red and yellow and pink and blue!

This week’s learning activities are all about colour. As I was out for my daily walk this morning, I saw a number of rainbows up on windows saying thank you to all the key workers out there.

Then I got thinking about colours and thought, let’s investigate them more!

What’s your favourite colour?

Everyone has a favourite colour. You can probably tell me what yours…

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How I am coping???

How I am coping???

Preamble

This is going to be a more of a personal blog in this difficult times. I’m hoping that some of the strategies I am implementing might be helpful and supportive for other people in the same situation.

Some contextual information first. I live alone in a small four room flat (bedroom, kitchen, living room and bathroom) with no outside space – my front door opens onto the street. I am well…

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Learning Activities 3: Paper Aeroplanes!

Learning Activities 3: Paper Aeroplanes!

Is it a bird? No, its a plane!

Welcome back to another week’s activities. You probably thought I had deserted you all, but no, I just had a brief stay-cation, and now I’m back.

This week, we are going to need to go outside and throw things – up for it?

Well grab some paper and let’s see who has the best paper aeroplane!

Fold that paper! Here is your first challenge. You need to learn…

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Mythical Beasts!

Welcome back! I hope you enjoyed completing last week’s activities on birds. This week we are going to stay with another type of animal but get a little more creative. This week’s activities are all about Mythical Beasts!

If you want to share any of your finished items then you can upload them to the comments below or twitter them to me @WilsonWaffling

What does it look like?

Mythical…

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Don’t just upload a PowerPoint! Preamble We are certainly dealing with very difficult times at the moment with the majority of teaching and/or assessment moving online.

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Learning Activities 1 - All about the birds

Learning Activities 1 – All about the birds

All about the birds

Since everyone is busy learning away from schools at the moment, I thought I would share some activities each week for people to use.

If you want to share any of your finished items then you can upload them to the comments below or twitter them to me @WilsonWaffling

What’s the same and what is different?

There are lots of different birds in the world. Have a look…

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Are we robot-proof? New Learning

Are we robot-proof? New Learning

Preamble

I’ve been working through a presentation I gave at university called ‘Are we robot-proof?’ Within this presentation I based my reflections on a few academic texts but mainly “Robot-Proof: Higher Education in the age of artifical intelligence” by Aoun 2017.

In the previous blog posts I have discussed the current situation with respect to technology and learning and how change is important…

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Using tech to do different things!

Using tech to do different things!

Preamble

Every now and again I come across an academic quote which I spend numerous hours trying to interpret. This is not because of the academic vocabulary being used or the difficulty of the subject matter of the quote. The reason I reflect on it for so long is that I am trying to bring it from the pages of the book into my everyday practice. 

From book to practice

Neil Selwyn is a prolific…

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Elementor Pro and me! Elementor Pro and me! For he majority of time I never cross post between this website and my personal gaming one.

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Are we preparing child for the future?

Are we preparing child for the future?

Podcast Project!

In this episode, we look at whether the current curriculum is preparing children for their future? is a broad and balanced curriculum ever attainable? and which future are we actually teaching towards? We also discuss toddler groups set up and ran as ‘dad-friendly’ groups and whether children should be allowed to opt-out of education.

The Education Debate is a podcast…

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Palindrome Day!!

All about the those palindomes

When I am writing this blog post, it is the 2nd February 2020. If you write this in the digital form it is a palindrome!

And if you are interested how these can be used within the classroom, then read on!

What is a palindrome? “… a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backwards as forwards, e.g.madam or nurses run”.

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Let innovators fly!

Preamble

I’m going to take a break from my robot proofing posts and talk about something which came to me while I was editing the recent episode of the podcast.

I wanted to talk about how important I think it is to allow innovators fly.

The type of person I am

In one of my previous blog posts, I discussed different people’s attitude to change. Some people avoid it, some people hide from it, some…

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