Chromebook Update: This-thing-needs-a-name
With a one-to-one computer initiative, a blended learning plan in the oven* and a team of people involved from KSA, ARK and Google, the scale of things has gone from one-man-and-a-class to this-thing-needs-a-name level.
I’m a big fan of word association games – probably too many Saturday mornings watching Mallet’s Mallet or too many Saturday afternoons code-naming my every move as an Operation – so when it comes to naming things I go for something cryptic by playing around with synonyms, acronyms and Latin derivations.
On the back of an envelope I jotted down some possible nicknames for our Chromebook initiative…
- Operation Blended Learning – too obvious
- Inventum Intertextatum – “Interwoven Discovery”
- B.ursting with L.earning EN.gineered D.evices – trying too hard
So we’ve called it Project 24.
What actually is Project 24?
Project 24 is a deep trial of blended learning. Three classes of year 7s stand to benefit over the course of the school year.
Pupils will have a Chromebook each and we will measure the impact on maths progress and attainment of two different models – ‘flipped classroom’ and ‘flex’.
* Credit to Courtney Hogben, Project 24’s Project Leader.