Waking up sentences! – 1

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The cat sat on the table.

Let’s give the sentence a bit more zip and bite. Let’s wake it up

The lion licked the buffet.

That’s better or slightly less dull

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Gareth Davies on Phil Beadle

Gareth’s firm rebuttal of Phil Beadle’s article in the TES Guardian lays out the stark realities of not harnessing ICT in teaching. I would love to interview Phil Beadle, not least because of his inspirational teaching, but also to tease out for him how ICT would enhance what he does. After all we are never too good to learn

Phil admits that ICT may be a fantastic tool, but like so many teachers he claims he does not have the time learn how to use it. Well Phil, perhaps you need to find that time, because pupils in your care deserve a 21st century education in which ICT has and will not replace books, pens and pencils, but is just as relevant in a literate society. To not be engaged in the forms of communication that this technology affords means, as an English teacher, you are unable to inform and educate students on how to become a constructive member of today’s society.