Welcome to Day 9 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar, where each day we reveal a tool that is helping educators with their creation of digital learning content. Today, we share a tool that could be helpful to teachers who regularly create instructional videos. This tool integrates Ai effectively by doing…
Welcome to Day 8 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar! As we open day 8 of the #24DaysOfAi Appvent Calendar, we are thrilled to showcase a great platform for school leaders: SLT Ai. With over 80 Ai-powered tools tailored to support leadership and management in schools, SLT Ai helps save time,…
Welcome to Day 7 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar! Today in #24DaysOfAi, we explore a tool that helps educators repurpose and transform existing video content with ease. Exemplary.ai is an Ai-driven platform which is great at helping to summarise lessons, generate engaging video clips, or provide captions in multiple languages….
Welcome to day 6 of the 2024 Appvent calendar where today we will focus on a firm favourite of ours…Brisk. Brisk is a FREE Google Chrome extension that provides over 30 fab tools to help teachers save precious time when preparing lesson resources and marking student work. Educators have designed…
Welcome to Day 5 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar! In today’s edition of #24DaysOfAi, we’re spotlighting a tool that gives educators a suite of fantastic tools to help create polished, professional content while addressing the unique challenges of workload, by making it super easy, fab quality and with some nifty…
Welcome back to the #24DaysOfAI Appvent Calendar! Today, we shine a spotlight on a platform that many educators already know and love – Quizizz. While it’s long been celebrated for its gamified approach to learning, Quizizz has quietly evolved into a powerhouse of AI-driven teaching tools, saving time, reducing workload,…
Welcome to Day 3 of the 2024 Appvent Calendar, where we continue to explore the most innovative tools shaping the future of education. Appvent has always been about showcasing impactful EdTech solutions, and this year’s focus on #24DaysOfAi is already sparking excitement and inspiration. Today, we are thrilled to introduce…
Welcome to today’s edition of the #24DaysOfAI Appvent Calendar! If you’re searching for a way to transform how writing is assessed in classrooms, Olex.AI might just be the solution you’ve been waiting for. This AI-driven platform offers educators a powerful toolset to provide personalised, class-level assessment and feedback on student…
Seven years ago, I had the idea, thinking how cool it would be, to have an advent calendar that revealed a helpful EdTech tool or platform each day throughout December in the run up to Christmas. And so the Appvent Calendar, sharing 24 days of EdTech magic, was born. This…
When it comes to Ai implementation in education, we often hear about its potential to transform learning, reduce teacher workload and debunked theories around Bloom’s 2 Sigma problem. But behind the buzzwords lies a crucial question: how can schools implement Ai effectively, ethically, and sustainably? To help schools navigate this…
AI tools are becoming an essential part of modern education, offering helpful ways to reduce workload, enhance learning, streamline classroom tasks and support teaching and inclusion. To help share some of the most popular tools, I’ve created the infographic below with 32 Ai Tools to Support Your Teaching and Their Learning,…
There’s no shortage of excitement around AI in education. Generative AI tools, like ChatGPT, have made their way into classrooms and seem to offer endless possibilities for helping students (and teachers) with everything from research to problem-solving. But we need to be careful, AI can either support or hinder learning,…
AI integration in education isn’t easy. There’s no getting away from Artificial Intelligence (AI). It’s on our TVs and news cycles, it’s sending us phishing emails, targeting ads, it’s even driving some cars, let alone helping us choose our Netflix viewing. The truth is AI is making waves across multiple…
As the European Union takes steps to regulate artificial intelligence with its AI Act, there’s a lot in here that UK schools should be mindful of. While we’re no longer bound by EU regulations, the Act offers many valuable insights into the future of AI governance in education and there’s…
Over the last decade and a half, we’ve seen significant shifts in curriculum development, particularly influenced by figures such as Nick Gibb and Michael Gove. Their reforms placed considerable emphasis on prescribed curricula, which, as many have noted, has significantly diminished teacher autonomy. Now, with artificial intelligence (AI) are we…
Last year I created a ‘Little Book of Generative AI Prompts for Teachers‘. It was labour of love to create but has proven hugely popular. I’ve been promising for some time now to create an equivalent ‘Little Book’ with prompts in it for senior leaders… and here it is!! It…
Ofsted introduced a policy paper this week on “Ofsted’s approach to artificial intelligence (AI)”. It’s a welcome document, but as always with Ofsted, whilst much of it is useful, it could go some way further. When working on writing ‘Perfect ICT Every Lesson’ more than ten years ago, a lot…
The Department for Education has today released guidance on the use of mobile phones in schools. It is something which has been a hot topic for as long as mobile phones have been available to young people. The DfE have shared four key documents: Mobile phones in school: guidance Creating…
Embracing the future of education requires more than just adopting new tools; it demands a shift in mindset and approach. Following a great meeting today with one of my British International School overseas clients that I’m supporting, I thought I’d pen some thoughts on embracing new technologies, digital strategy and…
I’ll of course start with the same message I’ve been sharing for many, many years, that every day should be a safer internet day. It’s been a personal pleasure to see more people take on and share this mantra over the years. The truth of the matter is though that…
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