David Rogers

To me, the view from Snowdon’s summit as the sun sets is inspiring, especially when the only other person on this honeypot peak was my brother whose 30th birthday it was.  I find it hard to think of being inspiring to anyone, but I had a great chat with Kelly Long a little while ago about my thoughts around technology, particularly mobile devices.  I hope you enjoy the episode and check out the other great educators on the Inspiration 4 Teachers podcast which is a great resource.

We’re developing the idea of Year 7 students creating weather forecasts.  This isn’t an original idea by any means, however it does present an opportunity to develop the style of geographical writing required at GCSE and beyond.  Weather forecasts are a challenging activity as young people have to collect, choose, interpret and explain information in a concise way.  Therefore, every word counts.  When we zoom through to GCSE Controlled Assessments and examinations, this concise natures and use of geographical words is a core skills needed to do well.  A strong focus on literacy and examination skills from Year 7 has helped Priory Geography to maintain our sustained improvement. This is  brief description of the lesson. Firstly, I asked the class to talk about the weather outside.  They had brought in an extreme weather report with them and used this for key words. We then watched the BBC Weather’s UK Forecast Video with the sound switched off....

Fantastic to hear today that the Mobile @ Priory project has received recognition by being shortlisted for an Education Innovation Award.  Thank you to all of those that made it all possible. To read about the project, visit this post .

Bett learn live 2013 s sh from David Rogers It’s been two years since we began the journey of creating a mobile device policy at Priory School. It was great to share the story with those who came along to see the Learn Live session at BETT on Friday.  This post is a collation of resources.  Above the presentation.  The main points are obvious from the slides, although do get in touch if you’d like to know more or would like to to work with your school or organisation. Below are two documents, the Mobile @ Priory Cookbook and the policy itself in one of the draft versions. Open publication - Free publishing - More cookbook Open publication - Free publishing - More byod