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Subject sites

This is a collection of subject related sites I have found interesting, challenging, thought provoking or useful.

 Maths

NRICH - maths

Meiklerigg's

+ Plus Maths

Edmund Harriss has a great site and this page of Fabwiki

Maths Student Read The Newspaper This article on +Plus magazine challenges the notion of some born mathematicians to all are Natural born Mathematicians

Brian Butterworth - The Mathematical Brain

British Society for Research into Learning Mathematics research and links at all sorts of levels

National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics

I do like what I have seen of Making Maths Make Sense by Richard Dunne. Quite a revolutionary way of looking at coming to maths through the eyes of a mathematician - from nursery upwards!

 

The Institute for Democracy from Mathematics has some fascinating ideas. I was put off by the very Christian connections but I am entranced by some of Colin Hannaford's ideas about mathematics and teaching as democratising processes. This quote from his paper Pogrammed to Fail or Taught to Succeed gives a flavour:
Clever children are not able to read and explain well because they are clever. Usually they are clever, because they can read and explain well!
Gives a taste and
This ‘natural aptitude’ was just the ability to copy, almost always without fault, all of the actions that I showed the class. This aptitude had nothing whatever to do with understanding. When I asked a class, as I often did: “Do you understand?” what they believed I meant was: ‘Do you understand what to do?’ and not what does the doing of it mean!

Science

PPARC

Learning Science Concepts Discussion Group - I want to return to this as there could be some useful dialogue with those who are coming from possibly a different place but with the same enthusiasm.

Engineering

Engineers without borders UK - their vision 'a world where access to technology or infa-structure is not a barrier to poverty alleviation

English

TeachIt Great resources and ideas for teaching English.

 

ETC.

Computers in Classrooms - a free newsheet focuses on educational information and electronic techonolgy - (interesting to see who is sponsoring the site)
 
Open Source Schools - open source software for schools.
This site by Helen Whitehead looks interesting - creative and collaborative writing, elearning and a whole stack of resources worth exploring when I have the time.

The Great Idea Finder This is beautiful; a really exciting site to explore and their mission is inspirational -  Our only mission is to provide inspiration to the "inventor" in all of us
 
How Stuff Works - 'stuff' being everything from maths to magic. Lots of answers to questions I never thought to ask - which always makes me think of more questions. It's an American site, but never mind.
 
The Museum network Uk has resources for Key Stages 1-4

Another site with the same name Museumnetwork.com gives access to museum resources world wide. Could spend hours exploring this site with whatever interest you have in mind from space travel to fine art.

Magic Studio is an exciting possibility for creating resources and sharing content of all sorts. It is offering an opportunity for teachers to share curriculum resources but I am thinking about the possibilities of working with children to create timelines of their own learning and to develop reflections in response to images either provided or of their own.
 
Living Learning (previously Widening Learning Web) -drastically revised site going live end of May 2010

World Class Tests

 

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