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		<title>Minecraft and #Computing &#8211; some ideas #minecraftedu</title>
		<link>http://briansharland.com/2013/05/20/minecraft-and-computing-some-ideas-minecraftedu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 14:35:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later today I will hopefully get a chance to show this at my local #CAShub meeting as they are doing a teachmeet style presentation of ideas. I&#8217;m not going to repeat most of what is in the presentation but what I have essentially covered is a couple of ideas I have had and also collated [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=783&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update on using #minecraftedu in school</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 20:14:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been using minecraftedu in school now for roughly 9 months now and I thought now would be a good time to write a quick summary of how it has been used so far and what to do with it next. Firstly my general impressions of Minecraft in a school situation is that it is [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=780&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Problem-solving not app-building #computing #digitalstudies</title>
		<link>http://briansharland.com/2013/04/23/problem-solving-not-app-building-computing-digitalstudies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 22:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday an opinion piece appeared in the Guardian about youngsters taking a self-entrepreneurial approach to building loads of nice apps for intelligent devices.  The writer was quite harsh in a sense, especially going after Apple and also casting a rather cynical eye on hordes of young men beavering away in small dingy offices to create [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=740&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>JISC Inform - Social Media, Who Needs It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Mar 2013 12:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from mattbritland.com: Last summer, Kingston Grammar School ICT teacher Matt Britland opened up the debate about the benefits and risks of using social media in teaching and learning in an article for the Guardian Teacher Network. Here, Jisc Inform looks at how universities and colleges are tackling those issues and asks – do we really need [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=715&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>My memories of Chris Allan @infernaldepart (cc @lisaallan8)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2013 07:42:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning to find out rather belatedly about the unfortunate and tragic death of Chris Allan.  I had first come to know Chris through twitter as @infernaldepart a while ago now and had the pleasure of meeting him, regrettably only the once, at the #rethinkingict conference last year. I largely got to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=707&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Designing the educational use aspect of a #BYOD policy for school</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 12:53:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the moment our school is investigating how to use our current Wi-Fi provision better across the school and that will include looking at how it would be possible to extend the use of the Wi-Fi to the pupils especially with a BYOD policy in place. For obvious reasons simply allowing a BYOD policy without [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=685&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I have an issue with this &#8216;anti-office, it&#8217;s boring&#8217; approach #digitalstudies #digitalliteracy</title>
		<link>http://briansharland.com/2013/01/21/why-i-have-an-issue-with-this-anti-office-its-boring-approach-digitalstudies-digitalliteracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This morning I saw on Twitter an article about the Scottish ICT curriculum and how it has been praised by Hal Abelson, who I respect greatly and I&#8217;m also reading one of his books,  which quite rightly praises the approach the Scots are taking (and many sassenachs are taking as well!) to craft real-life and [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=634&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>my #code365 exploits next year</title>
		<link>http://briansharland.com/2012/12/06/my-code365-exploits-next-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 16:47:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year I did a #project365 where I took a photo a day for a year.  Only missing one day overall I ended up with a great blog filled with lots of nice pictures which don&#8217;t really provide me much value for the future or provide anyone else any value at all. I thought I [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=618&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baseline #assessment of #digitalstudies skills using @yacapaca</title>
		<link>http://briansharland.com/2012/11/15/baseline-assessment-of-digitalstudies-skills-using-yacapaca/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:02:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short while ago on the wiki (http://digitalstudieswiki.pbworks.com) a discussion was started about baselining pupils in #digitalstudies. That reminds me I need to add this blog once I have done to that page. I left that discussion for a while but have come back to this issue as our own school exam week is very [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=612&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>#Minecraftedu Pedagogy &#8211; some thoughts</title>
		<link>http://briansharland.com/2012/11/05/minecraftedu-pedagogy-some-thoughts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2012 14:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brian Sharland</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been talking with Santeri Koivisto who is one of the head honchos to do with Minecraftedu about issues to do with the game and pedagogy. This post is therefore a summation of what I feel about Minecraftedu and pedagogy. To start I headed back to the wikipedia page on pedagogy and the following line [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=briansharland.com&#038;blog=12188355&#038;post=518&#038;subd=sharland&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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