Alistair Owens
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| Alistair Owens has developed an ecommerce site with a difference. Providing teaching resources for schools http://www.keen2learn.co.uk holds a huge selection of educational games aimed at parents who want to take a more active role to support their child. The site offers advice and support to parents and teachers on the curriculum and includes special support in areas of self esteem and special needs
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Four + 500% Equals Blackbird Pi(e) in Coded Maths Games
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I always found math to be a difficult subject to learn at school. I put most of my failing down to the fact I sat too close to an old fashioned pot-bellied stove. This provided a great source of warmth but also destroyed my concentration. At least I learnt to spell soporific in a written defence during a subsequent detention, but the absence of maths sense slowed the learning curve for some years. Maths was always a struggle; the pot bellied stove inflicted collateral damage but I believe the real culprit was the boring way maths was taught.
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Turn A Shower Into An Educational Game
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They say education is a lifelong journey. Difficult to comprehend when you are at school slogging through lessons and exams but learning can be greater fun when turned into an educational game. Take a practical application and apply as many subjects that have been learned in the classroom.
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Is It Still The Queen’s English?
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The English language being an amalgam of many other languages is possibly the most adaptive in the world. With complex and changing content the tricks you can play with English has made it one of the best games in education. But although the constantly changing “rules” refreshes the fun it can trip the unwary and make examination success hazardous.
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The English Language in Educational Games
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The English language, an amalgam of an incredible number of other languages, is by its nature highly adaptable. You can play some great English games with word structure format and spelling. One such example that is a fun educational game is to analyse where a word came from, and then write a sentence or paragraph with as many words from other languages as possible, and it has to make sense!
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Is It Parents, Children, or Schools that Fail Exams
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An alarming number of children are let down by an
overloaded schooling system. Entry to the better schools is very restricted and induces some
cheating by parents to meet the entrance criteria.
The fix is long term but in the meantime there is an alternative where parents can provide real
support to their child and school
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