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Mar 17 2013

#TLAB13 – Transforming learning

By Mark Anderson Conferences, CPD, EdTech, T & L 11 Comments

Whilst I'll write a longer post soon about the inspiration from the day today at Berkhamsted's "Teaching, Learning & Assessment" conference yesterday, I did say that I would put up my presentation and resources from the session. So here they are: My presentation: TLAB '13 I also spoke about a…

Feb 24 2013

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Good habits that support learning

By Mark Anderson T & L No Comments

I've been thinking more and more about the working habits of students. Most recently today I've been thinking about the way in which students submit their work to us. They can do it in a multitude of different ways, and we try to drill in good habits of presentation when students are…

Feb 12 2013

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Digital Leader Network Learn Live session

By Mark Anderson Conferences, ICT, T & L No Comments

It was a great feeling when I got the email through saying that my proposal to BETT had been accepted for us to talk about Digital Leaders at BETT this year. I was hopeful we'd get a slot, but wasn't sure. As soon as I found out we'd been accepted,…

Dec 02 2012

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iPad 104 – the learning

By Mark Anderson CPD, iPad, T & L 14 Comments

Innovative uses of technology are fantastic but at its core, the daily business of using technology to support learning has to be based around sound thinking and critical pedagogy. Are the foundations there to build transformational learning opportunities? Do the staff (and students) have the skills in order for them…

Dec 01 2012

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Top 7 iPad apps for PE (that aren’t PE apps) #CLVPETM

By Mark Anderson CPD, ICT, iPad apps, T & L No Comments

I was lucky to be asked to talk at the recent Cramlington Learning Village PE specific TeachMeet about ideas to support teaching & learning in PE. To that end I made a presentation on different iPad apps that, whilst not specific PE apps, can be used to great effect to…

Nov 29 2012

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Beginner’s Guide to SAMR

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, T & L 12 Comments

I recently presented (virtually) about the SAMR framework for looking how you can transform learning through technology at TeachMeet Dorset. View that presentation below:

Nov 16 2012

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iPad in schools 101 – in the beginning

By Mark Anderson ICT, iPad, T & L No Comments

Where to begin? I love evidence and certainly the chart below starts a compelling conversation about how we are going to use technology in education in the future. If we are looking in to how we are going to equip our young people with the digital skills they are going…

Nov 10 2012

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iPad learning hub training resources

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, iPad, T & L No Comments

Activity Clevedon iPad Learning Hub Task Olympics presentation Olympics script Example John Snow video clip Your browser does not support the video tag

Oct 14 2012

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And what Smore…..!

By Mark Anderson Cool sites, EdTech, ICT, Posters, T & L No Comments

Found this fab site for creating flyers recently (thanks @mattbritland) which is simply brilliant. www.smore.com Simply add in the building blocks you want, choose your theme / layout / background and away you go. I've found it particularly useful as it takes the technical side of learning software out of…

Oct 14 2012

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Pow Pow Powtoons!

By Mark Anderson Cool sites, EdTech, ICT, T & L No Comments

Thanks to @andyhutt for the heads up on this one. Love this site for creating your own animated presentations. Here's one I made earlier (mind out if you have speakers on for the annoying jingle at the end though!). It's got a really simple to use interface with fab…