Future Learning Blog

Here is the link to a post I wrote for CORE Education about the use of Chromebooks with our year 10 students.  The funding was provided by CORE after we successfully applied for a Maori grant to support our learners.  For more information about the grants have a look at this link , and to read the post click on the picture below, or follow this link .

In NCEA PE 2.5 we have to review the impacts of a major sporting event.  In 2011 I started a project that used google reader to aggregate all available sources of relevant literature regarding the rugby world cup (RWC) - I then used google drive to collect and assess work, this was my first experience with digitising an NCEA standard and you can read about it here ! http://www.flickr.com/photos/sxbaird I now have all the articles that I collected in google drive (100+) and needed the boys to pick through the relevant ones to help them with their research project (what are the impacts on society of a major

Recently our school was fortunate enough to be successful in receiving a grant form CORE Education to buy a set of Chromebooks for our students.  Today the boys opened them and booted them up - it only took about 2 minutes from the time that I put the sealed box on the desk until the first boys had logged in and were browsing the web, almost unbelievable!!