In sidney stringer alone there are over 1200 students
WIKI ANSWERS-2007 million tonnes of paper and cardboard is used in the united kingdom every year. Over 4kg of waste paper per household in the UK each week!
7200 pounds of paper per year
How much paper is used to write something on a blog?
NONE
How many letters do you need to send to parents to let them know about parents evening times and events that are taking place?
Not one piece of paper is needed to send a text to every parents house.
Forgot your homework? Dog ate it, you was away, you never knew what it was?
Get tweeted homework and coursework, useful websites, videos, images etc, it starts with you, a keyboard and the worldwideweb
INTERNET WORLD STATS- there were 51,442,100 Internet users as of June/10, 82.5% of the population so why don't we use it within classrooms
90 trillions emails are sent a year
There are over 234 million websites on the internet
126 millions blogs are over the internet
4 billions pictures are uploaded to flickr
1 billion total number of videos on youtube a day
There are 1.73 billions internet users worldwide
BUT
there is only one person using the world wide web i your classroom
We are part of a revolution that has evolved into technology and data and its time we used this in a area where we spend most of our day
It's time to throw away the notepads and lined paper, its time to grab hold of the closest laptop/computers and start blogging.