Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Dec 01 2022

Welcome to Day One of #Appvent22

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Education No Comments

Day 01 - FormTimeIdeas Welcome to this, the first day of the 2022 Appvent Calendar! I am so excited to share the 24 amazing apps, their resources, ideas and opportunities for supporting learning, teaching and maybe even reducing some workload along the way over the coming 24 days in the…

Nov 03 2022

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Why the #PedTech narrative misses the mark

By Mark Anderson Digital Strategy, EdTech, Education, ICT No Comments

There are a few people who won’t like what I’m going to say in this post, some may even see it as a personal attack, but it isn’t. I’ll start by saying, I have respect for the person who coined the phrase, @FionaAS. For those who know me and my…

Jul 24 2022

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The changing face of CPD and what it (should) mean for schools and providers

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, Education, Efficacy No Comments

Thankfully, the face of CPD in education (that’s Continuing Professional Development, with the emphasis on the Continuing element) has been changing in recent years. I’ve always recognised the importance of certain types of INSET activity, such as: bringing colleagues together to share whole school data and results when everyone comes…

Jul 21 2022

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The Top Four QR Code Generators for Teachers and Students

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Food for thought, Free resource, top tips No Comments

I've written a number of posts about QR codes over the years such as this one and this one, including ideas for their use in education. You'd think given their age, they might be a bit old hat now, but they're still super useful as reference points in lots of…

Jul 09 2022

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The best four #edtech tools educators can easily use to create resources for teaching and learning

By Mark Anderson Computing, EdTech, Education, educators, Efficacy, Resources, Tools No Comments

Like it or not, making resources is part of the bread and butter of being a teacher. Sometimes it involves making an explainer video, sometimes it’s creating a presentation or a keyword challenge grid, resources to go on wall displays or templates for book reviews for your students… Resources are…

Jun 18 2022

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Why “touch” in the digital classroom?

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Hybrid learning, Remote Learning No Comments

There are lots of reasons why touch devices have been so popular and successful as learning devices in the classroom. Their functionality and responsiveness have meant that whether you’re a teacher working with our youngest learners or in the later years of formal education, you can literally have the world…

Jun 10 2022

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Generative learning, retrieval practice, #edtech and the importance of #sequencing

By Mark Anderson Cognitive Science, CPD, EdTech, Pedagogy first No Comments

In a recently made available study on sequencing, Roelle, Froese, Krebs, Obergassel and Waldeyer shared some interesting highlights in their paper “Sequence matters! Retrieval practice before generative learning is more effective than the reverse order”. The paper certainly reinforces previous findings related to spaced practice and retrieval practice. It should…

Jun 04 2022

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Why ask your learners to work on the edtech in a non-edtech lesson, when the edtech can work for you?

By Mark Anderson Digital Strategy, EdTech, T & L No Comments

I've long been a fan of Adobe Creative Cloud Express (formerly Adobe Spark and still completely free for education) and with their relatively recent updates, you can now not just collaborate on designs that you've made but you can also share remixable templates. Pretty cool huh? I use them personally…

May 17 2022

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Book Review: So, you want to learn how to code?

By Mark Anderson Books, Computing, Resources No Comments

Teaching coding isn't easy, I know, I did it for many years. It was particularly difficult for me because, like many teachers of ICT and Computing, it wasn't my specialist subject. Sure, I had some coding experience from my youth, spending many happy hours typing in code from a magazine…

May 14 2022

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Free webinar series and resources designed to help schools with #edtech

By Mark Anderson CPD, Digital Strategy, EdTech, Leadership, Learning, Resources, Uncategorized No Comments

My work with schools most commonly focuses on a number of key areas. Primarily it is based on teaching and learning with technology, purposeful and effective approaches to using technology in the classroom, leadership support around digital strategy and what the evidence says works when it comes to technology in…