I’d like to say thank you for all of the votes for my blog in both the ‘Teacher’s blog of the year’ and ‘Most Influential Blog of the Year’. Voting has now closed and this blog was outside of the top ten, but thank you for your votes and support anyway.
I had many tweets from people telling me they had voted and it makes me smile to think that my silly ideas, shared links and waffle help other teachers across the country.
So thank you again.
To see the full list of shortlisted blogs, visit here: http://educationblogawards.org/shortlisted-blogs-2012/
And a MASSIVE well done and thank you to Chris Ratcliffe for his hard work in organising the awards in the first place. It’s been a truly epic task and there are a lot of teachers and pupils who are thankful for his hard work.
As an ICT teacher I would have to agree with the comenmt below/above. Girls are just as capable as boys however boys seem more interested and like to question the software or hardware and want to know how it works e.t.c or what will happen when I press this button. Girls just seem to get the work done and usually to a better standard. Maybe they are scared of doing something wrong or breaking it? I would suggest girls prefer to use ICT, make an amazing website or flash animation no questions asked, where as boys prefer to experiment. Think thats just the way it is and always has been. If everyone was a computer programmer who would use the software? How do we get more girls interested in ICT? I would argue that they already are my year 11 GCSE ICT class consists of 10 girls and 8 boys. Although saying that my year 10 has 15 boys and 4 girls :/ If you do find a way of getting more girls interested in ICT I’d be glad to know how.Thanks