Reading each student’s work each week, at a rate of ten minutes each, took nearly two and a half hours. Thinking of suitable comments, adding them in to the appropriate place in Google Classroom, and updating my spreadsheet markbook took another hour and a half.
Something had to be done.
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A couple of people and I started to discuss how we might use technology to process a block of text.
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I have republished this post, or a version of it, on my Substack newsletter. The comments are interesting!You can use a spreadsheet to solve even relatively trivial problems — but why should you do so?
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Although I haven’t been overly impressed with ChatGPT as a creative force, I have to say that I am impressed with it as an alternative to Google.
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On December 7th, 2015, I wrote an article explaining how you could set up a spreadsheet in Excel to help you predict and analyse students’ grades.
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You can use a spreadsheet to solve even relatively trivial problems — but why should you do so?
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You would be forgiven for thinking that every teacher in the country has spent lockdowns being so immersed in technology that they have all become experts. There is no more need for staff training in IT skills — and so no need to conduct a staff audit.
If only!
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Although the book has not been written with teachers in mind, it contains information that many teachers would find useful.
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Google sheets has a tick box feature. Here are some ways you can make use of it.
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To learn programming, it’s best to have some real problems which need solving. This article looks at several examples of the applications I’ve created, and why.
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You can use a spreadsheet to solve even relatively trivial problems — but why should you do so?
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