Life in Links 20-10-2017

Some things that have caught my interest over the last week:

Good Teachers Talk: Better Teachers Listen | Class Teaching The post is more interesting, to me, than the title.

One way of achieving this identify shift is to come unprepared to a lesson! For example, working on a poem in English that neither the pupils nor the teacher have read before. In doing so, pupils begin to see that their identities can fluctuate from learner to contributor, thus giving them the confidence to enact this discourse themselves in the classroom and beyond.

Which speaks to vocalising your process. I do that (I hope) in writing, but not so much in reading.
School walls are oozing with unhelpful growth mindset cheese…. | teacherhead

Get these slogans blown up and laminated and plaster your corridors and walls in them… Bingo! Go Growth Mindset

And

Live it. Don’t laminate it. Stick that on a poster

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Developing a Proper Growth Mindset – The Educator Blog

False Growth Mindset

After the recent pushback on Growth Mindset this post suggests that there can be real Growth Mindset and “Many of the best teachers are already there”
Online training – Raspberry Pi We recently launched a new way for people to learn about computing with the Raspberry Pi Foundation: free online training courses, available to anyone, anywhere in the world!
How to Live Without Google Google trackers have been found on 75% of the top million websites. This means they are not only tracking what you search for, they’re also tracking which websites you visit, and using all your data for ads that follow you around the internet.
Physical Computing With Scratch | Raspberry Pi Projects

The version of Scratch included with the Raspberry Pi has a number of unique features; one of the most useful is its ability to communicate with the GPIO pins (General Purpose Input Output). These pins allow you to connect your Raspberry Pi to a range of devices, from lights and motors to buttons and sensors. The original Raspberry Pi had a 26-pin header and newer models (B+, Pi 2, Pi 3, etc) have a 40-pin header, but this workshop will work with any model.

I’ve generally failed with any raspberry pi stuff that involves extra hardware beyond a camera this might help.
Simple Scratch intruder alarm « Blog My Wiki!

uses any old Raspberry Pi with Raspbian and some parts you’d find in a CamJam EduKit or similar: an LED, a resistor, a push-button switch, a buzzer and a Passive Infra Red (PIR) movement sensor wired up

Looks like it might be a nice we project for school.
Fragmentum – A microcast from Adam Procter A new microcast. Glad to see a education one appearing.
Clips – Google Drive lesson plan to use clips to produced short, 30 sec, movie about a country.
Spreadsheets – Google Drive Resources for teaching spreadsheets. Year 5 (England)
iOS Keynote is so darn cool! – Learners Together: Teaching with Technology Animated presentations for six word stories.