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Replied to Purge your Mac of OneDrive (Tech, tales and imagery)
It doesn’t take much experience with Microsoft’s OneDrive to learn that it is an unmitigated car-crash: it purports to be a productivity tool that makes it possible to share files quickly and easily.

Hi Nick, When I read this I was going to let you know that OneDrive had been rock solid for a while for me. I use a mac in school and at home. I didn’t get to write the comment.
On Monday arriving in school I opened my daily plans, a set of txt files in OneDrive, to find that they had not synced from Sunday at home. No plans 😖

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Liked A poetry lesson by James Durran (@jdurran)James Durran (@jdurran) (James Durran)
An account of a poetry lesson, with some thoughts on efficiency, on how we treat texts and on knowledge.

efficiency in teaching is a problematic idea. Of course time and energy shouldn’t be evaporated away by gimmickry or activity with no purpose. But an element of theatre, an injection of emotion, or a playful unwrapping of ideas can be worth the time if ideas are more memorably imprinted or are more deeply understood.

Interesting post in relation to knowledge, exploratory learning. I’ll be revisiting the blog for the primary section which looks really valuable.

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Replied to A tweet by Blair Minchin (Twitter)

Data.

Boiling down children, human beings, to data.

Data on maths and literacy.

That’s what league tables do.

They don’t demotivate me because I know they paint a tiny, incomplete picture of a school, a smaller one of a class and a microscopic view of an individual child. https://twitter.com/mark_mclaughlin/status/1428405387355623425

Data, can be done differently.

Home

I keep being pulled by this site. Cc @IaninSheffield

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Bookmarked Create a Random Generator - Perchance.org (perchance.org)
Perchance is a platform for creating and sharing random text generators. To create a random generator you simply create lists which reference other lists

Wonder if this could be useful for the classroom. Certainly plenty of story-starter types. Also Word Problems (Adding and Subtracting) might be a start.

Via: Joe Jennet create a random generator

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I just switched to the block editor to test out the new WordPress Block patterns feature.

You go to the pattern library, copy a pattern and paste it into your editor. I did that here and replace the 3 images that it came with. I added some captions. Using this pattern.

Here is another pattern.

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And the days are not full enough.

And the nights are not full enough

And life slips by like a field mouse

Not shaking the grass

– Ezra Pound

I don’t think I am quite ready for the Block Editor yet but these look interesting.