Mark Anderson - ICTEvangelist

Dec 19 2014

My presentation & reflection on #TMOxford

By Mark Anderson TeachMeets 2 Comments

As you'll know, I'm no stranger to Teachmeets but the one I attended last night in Oxford, organised by the dapper Amjad Ali had the ingredients of a really special learning & sharing experience. It was honest, fun, reflective, full of sharing, laughter and learning. I'll say it here -…

Nov 26 2014

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Game to help you learn binary!

By Mark Anderson Computing One Comment

I was put on to a great resource for practicing binary conversions today which I had to share - it works on a kind of Tetris game basis. See how you get on. It's great fun! Check it out by clicking here. Cheers!

Nov 22 2014

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5 reasons I love teaching

By Mark Anderson Nurture 4 Comments

1. No two days, classes, students, are the same. It goes in many ways to what Coe said in his recent report: "Ultimately, the definition of effective teaching is that which results in the best possible student outcomes. There is currently no guaranteed recipe for achieving this: no specifiable combination…

Nov 19 2014

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My presentation for #TMStockport

By Mark Anderson ICT 2 Comments

My presentation for #TMStockport was quite a difficult choice. Knowing who else was speaking and the topic of use of technology, I wanted to do something on purposeful use - yes... I know... but I had an inkling that their host @ICT_MrP would probably cover that, so I went for…

Nov 15 2014

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On purposeful use of technology

By Mark Anderson T & L 29 Comments

If you haven't noticed, whilst I love technology and its propensity to enhance learning, for me it always has to be purposeful. I've written at some length about it previously but I thought a handy checklist might be, well... handy. So I made this. Please forgive the brevity of the…

Nov 11 2014

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How can teachers get the best out of edtech? #BettChat

By Mark Anderson EdTech 3 Comments

What a day today on #BettChat. Lots of engagement and ideas flowing. To help keep a record of the discussion, I took the tweets from the chat and added them to a Storify which you can read and check out below. It was as always a fast and furious debate…