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Photo credit: The Flooz Some days I can’t help feeling like I’m just piggybacking. My best ideas with ICT have been borrowed from other people’s best ideas, and I’m merely reproducing them in a slightly different way. I don’t feel much like an innovator, especially not when compared with many of the well-known edubloggers out [...]

A big welcome to all our new PYP colleagues in Singapore! Lovely to have you visit our East campus. Below is a Voicethread we started to help us look at practical ways we can reinforce the PYP Attitudes in the classroom. Some of our teachers have already added information about how they use the attitudes [...]

Photo credit When I first signed up for Twitter I won’t lie; I wasn’t overly impressed. I didn’t know who to follow, I didn’t know what to say. After all, surely the ‘status update’ function of Facebook would do the same thing. I persevered, followed more people, shared some interesting things I found and then [...]

Monica (Grade 3) comes into my lesson after lunch and says, “Mrs Beasley, can I share with you something I’m really proud of?” “Of course, I’d love to hear it,” I reply. “Barack Obama won the US election and he is the first black president of the United States!” Well, when you have passion like [...]