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Jun 01 2016

The Modern Educator – part one

By Mark Anderson Learning 9 Comments

As noted in some of my tweets recently I am undertaking some work with Independent Thinking on the Isle of Man this week. It's a really exciting project. My part of it is looking at what it takes to be a modern educator. I obviously have my points of view…

May 15 2016

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Get a rocket up your CPD

By Mark Anderson ICT 2 Comments

Continuing Professional Development (or Continuing Professional Self Development as Ian Gilbert discusses in his 'Why Do I Need a Teacher When I've got Google?' book... CPD has changed its appearance. Not a sheep in wolf's clothing. Not at all. But no longer is it about one of the senior leadership team…

Apr 26 2016

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Pedagogy first…

By Mark Anderson T & L 8 Comments

Michael Fullan is credited with the phrase, "Pedagogy is the driver, technology is the accelerator". He's right on the money as far as I'm concerned. Following a recent TeachMeet presentation at Tom Sherrington's school in London, I was inspired by a presentation by Oliver Caviglioli in which he talked about a…

Apr 10 2016

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Teach Tech Play Conference #TTPlay

By Mark Anderson Conferences 3 Comments

Do you remember when you first started teaching? Did you want to change the world? I did and still do. It's still my driving force and mantra even now. To be able to share my ideas to such a wide audience and to spend time with educators face to face…

Apr 05 2016

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Office Lens app for great note snapping in class

By Mark Anderson iPad apps 4 Comments

In a series of great little apps for the classroom, please enter Microsoft's Office Lens app (Android / iOS) which is free. Simply put, rather than taking a normal photograph of a document or whiteboard using your mobile device, open Office Lens and it will capture the document / board by…

Mar 11 2016

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Positively Powerful Impact

By Mark Anderson iPad apps One Comment

I read an article this week about tracking behaviour in school. I think that tracking pupil behaviour is a good thing. Attitudes towards learning have a massive impact upon how much learning actually takes place. Different schools have different approaches and that’s fine, you don't have to do it digitally…

Mar 10 2016

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Yakit Kids for simple explanations and oracy

By Mark Anderson iPad 2 Comments

If you aren't aware of Yakit Kids, where have you been? Yakit Kids is a free iPhone (which works on iPad) app that is super simple to use, great fun, but scalable in terms of its potential impact. Simply ask children to either screenshot or grab an image / photo…

Feb 19 2016

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Beginner’s Guide to YouTube for teachers (the crib sheet)

By Mark Anderson Google 2 Comments

YouTube has so many things to offer teachers but often teachers veer away from it for fear of the comments that appear under videos or through or worries about inappropriate content. Truth is though, ask any child how they've taught themselves something, chances are they'll come back and say YouTube. With…