Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Sep 22 2016

QR Code Treasure Hunt Resource – got to find them all!

By Mark Anderson Resources

I love QR codes and have done for a long time. I've written some posts on the topic including this one which talks about a variety of different sites you can use to create them including some pretty cool visual ones. This post includes a resource for making your own…

Sep 21 2016

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Genius hour and design thinking sketchnote resources

By Mark Anderson Learning

I'm speaking at the national Apple Regional Training Centre conference next week in the UK and one of the sessions I'm running is around the idea of the 'Genius Hour'. For those who haven't come across it before, it was borne out of the idea of Google's 20% time. This…

Sep 18 2016

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Pokemon What?!

By Mark Anderson Learning

I've just been catching up with my timeline following some recent conversations around using Pokemon Go as a tool to engage learners in the classroom. It first hit my attention when I received an email yesterday that Debra Kidd had written about it and then a short while later I…

Sep 16 2016

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Stop! Don’t press send!

By Mark Anderson Leadership

Email is great. I love it. Such a quick, efficient and immediate means of communication. Many of us use it and for good reason. Whenever I have a corridor conversation with a colleague I always make sure that I follow it up with an immediate email to summarise the conversation…

Sep 12 2016

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An Apple for the teacher?

By Mark Anderson ADE

Are you a school or educator using Apple technologies? Chances are that if you are a school or educator with iPads or other Apple technology, you'll want some decent opportunities for CPD. If you're in this position then Apple have come up with something I'm confident you'll be interested…

Sep 05 2016

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New Academic Year Resolutions – a plea

By Mark Anderson Morals, personal

I've seen lots of blog posts these past few weeks... Ten things for NQTs, ten things for educators as we start this academic year, ten things as a teacher wanting to use tech, as a leader, so forth and so on... New Year Resolutions are funny things... around the actual…

Sep 03 2016

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Growth mindset for teachers

By Mark Anderson CPD

Originally posted on educationevangelist.com; as I move these things together onto ICT Evangelist, and given the popularity of the sketchnote I made about Growth Mindset for Students, I thought I'd migrate this post over today. Reflecting back on the ideas here, perhaps these are some things that you could think…

Aug 30 2016

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Hong Kong Learning

By Mark Anderson CPD

International travel is something that I really love. As a child my parents weren’t really into it and it wasn’t until I went on the French exchange as a teenager I got my first experience of travelling abroad. Jump forwards a few years to the work I am doing now…

Aug 29 2016

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Growth mindset for students…

By Mark Anderson Learning

I recently saw Robert MacMillan (@robfmac) tweet about Growth Mindsets and a resource he had typed up and shared in different formats: https://twitter.com/robfmac/status/605130733141815296 One of the great features of Paper is the 'Mix' sharing ecosystem that it provides allowing for others to share their work so that it can…