Esteemed education specialist John Connell blogs about the upcoming Education Fast Forward debate, which he will be chairing. John explains how this debate will build on the previous debate about productivity in education, this time focusing on relevance in education and the relevance of education.

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Newspapers. Does anyone still read a newspaper? In the technology era that our students live in, how many of them would go beyond the news websites and pick up a traditional paper to read? Reading a physical paper can deliver much more than just scanning...

Flipped Math Classroom Interviews with students and teacher This week was the introductory session for the flipped math classrooms. I took the opportunity to interview some students today along with their teacher. This is a transcription from these interviews...

Research has shown that pupils who are more aware of their heritage and ancestral background are more likely to perform better at school. Our latest Theme on Planet for 'Heritage in the classroom' looks at ways that Planet can help teachers facilitate...

I found this online word tool really intriguing... www.wordle.net You choose a blog or RSS feed or paste in a body of text from a website or ebook, and the software analyses the text for recurring words in order to generate an image. Plenty of options...

This blog post was co-created with Kristin Daniels as a summary of the presentation to the Board of Education of Stillwater School District 834 on Thursday, October 27, 2011. Kristin Daniels and I began our work last February as Technology Integration...

Flipped Professional Development Interview with Derek Olson Derek Olson, sixth grade teacher from Afton/Lakeland elementary, was the Minnesota Teacher of the Year in 2008-2009. He recently responded to these questions about technology integration. What...

Wow, how time flies. We are at the end of August already and students are starting to reconvene in classrooms all across the world! I always enjoyed the fact that every August I got to start over, new classroom, new students, new adventures. For some...

Do you ever wonder who actually gets the grants you take so much time to fill out an application to receive? If you apply for them and are not one of the lucky few who receive them, then you probably don’t know who did (unless there is a website...

Day two of BETT saw more presentations, more questions from eager teachers and a Promethean Planet first - TeachMeet Takeover! The Planet team were pleased to support the TeachMeet community, an initiative launched to give teachers the opportunity to...