Saturday, 31 January 2015

Student Surveys - Mathematics

I gave the mid-year survey to all of my students last week. Here are the results for my mathematics classes in grades 6 and 7. Almost 100% response, because I held off giving the survey until the end of the week, when several students returned from sickness.

Again I used the standard school survey, with ratings from 1 (strongly disagree) to 4 (strongly agree), and I plotted the results onto a net on a scale of 2 to 4. Click the image to view.

Monday, 26 January 2015

Student Surveys - IT

Mid-Year survey given to all students as a Google form, to complete anonymously.
Questions are answered on a scale of 1(strongly disagree) to 4(strongly agree)

Sunday, 18 January 2015

Introduction to Cyber Security

Signed up for this course offered by Futurelearn (The Open University), taught by Cory Doctorow. From reading his novels and papers, I know that he has a good balance of technical knowledge and communication skills, and I am hoping it will be an interesting 8 weeks.

I am hoping to boost my resources for when I teach these topics to middle and high school students. Its very difficult to find materials that are neither overwhelmingly technical nor superficially trivial on such things as malware, cracking, encryption, tracking, etc.