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Learners on a mission at Stephen Lawrence Centre
Staff at The Stephen Lawrence Centre in South London have been using MissionMaker to "invigorate the curriculum". "MissionMaker," says Caine Crawford, who leads the workshops at the South London educational centre, "engages with students on a graphical level."
Teacher Martin Colley expands, "...we’ve got quite a number of children here for whom English is a second language and they can achieve at the same level and higher than the pupils who speak English as a first language because written language itself isn’t a central part of the [MissionMaker] process."
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Immersive Education and TrueTube Working in Collaboration
Immersive Education is pleased to be working in collaboration with TrueTube to promote ethical media projects within schools. So far materials are freely available for Citizenship, English and RE so click to take a look!
Teacher materials written by Immersive's experienced team of teachers suggest ways in which the video clips can be used in a classroom context. The activities encourage students to have a voice and express themselves to an authentic audience.
Mapped to the national curriculum and freely available - these resources are not to be missed!
Young offenders reformed through ICT
Sheffield West City Learning Centre is working with their local Youth Offending Service to offer young offenders personalized learning and the chance to stay out of prison in two innovative schemes using Immersive Education software...read more
