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	<description>Thoughts, experiences and evaluations of a teacher in a Scottish secondary school. (The thoughts expressed here are my own and do not represent any school or local authority)</description>
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		<title>ICT &#8211; what skills should we teach? What skills can we teach?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:45:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading an interesting news article today about the frustration a business man has about the lack of ICT skills pupils leaving school have. I can&#8217;t say I have found pupils so far advanced in their ICT skills that they learn nothing new in schools. Like adults, pupils vary in their skills in ICT, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=15&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Explain yourself laddie!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:48:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s April Fools day today and I feel a bit of a fool for taking such a long time to write anything in this blog. So I wanted to explain myself and to be honest about education, teaching and the use of IT.
Essentially, I haven&#8217;t had the time. How often had you heard that from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=13&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slow and frustrating at times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jan 2008 21:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marking and reports seem never ending at the moment. This slows down the pace of other jobs getting done but I did get the del.icio.us account opened. I did this at home and installed the two buttons and then realised that nearly all of the sites useful for my pupils were &#8216;favourited&#8217; at work. I&#8217;m [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=12&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Safe use of the internet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:01:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have now linked this page from the pupils&#8217; History Help page and spoke to the pupils about the purpose of the blog. I am hoping some pupils will give their views on the effectiveness (or otherwise) of my use of ICT and suggestions for ICT use. With the thought that some pupils may begin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=10&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reading no more?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:46:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are we at a crossroads regarding reading books? Is it enough to get all your knowledge from sources other than a book? What would be lacking in your life if you never read another book?
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		<title>Is it all about thinking differently?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:15:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have taken small steps towards using more ICT in my teaching and, I must say, the postive responses I&#8217;ve had from pupils so soon has taken me by surprise in a way. Even doing something as simple as putting the sheet that I handed out to the pupils onto the webpage as a back up, has [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=8&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where am I starting from?</title>
		<link>http://mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com/2008/01/05/where-am-i-starting-from/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jan 2008 11:19:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So this blog will not only allow me, my pupils and you dear reader (note singular!)to comment on and contribute to my usage of ICT, but to also keep a sort of record of progress, which will hopefully help with evaluations of effectiveness.
In August 2007, I finally got a Smartboard in my classroom. So far [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=7&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Very tasty</title>
		<link>http://mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com/2008/01/04/very-tasty/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 10:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now I get it.

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		<title>One step at a time</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:56:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was doing school work (yes, teachers do work during their holidays), which consisted of catching up with reading the piles of stuff that finds its way into your pigeon hole but never seems to get read during term time. I had a list of &#8216;useful History sites&#8217; so I thought I should check [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=5&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why am I doing this blog?</title>
		<link>http://mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com/2008/01/03/why-am-i-doing-this-blog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2008 17:29:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put the following into my &#8216;About&#8217; page and thought this should really be my first entry. I hope this blogging exercise will put me and my students in touch with others in the world of education and ICT. There are thousands of blogs out there and I&#8217;m sure mine will remain lost in the heap, but if [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mrdavidsonb21.wordpress.com&blog=2439743&post=4&subd=mrdavidsonb21&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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