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So we’ve been on tour now for three days. Day two was the Welsh leg and we had some fantastic visits to schools. The first of which was to Bro Edern near Cardiff. An iPad 1:1 school, we met with Ceri Anwen James who gave us a tour of the school…
So we’ve been on tour now for two days so playing catch up a little bit. We had a fantastic first day on the tour yesterday. I’m currently writing this in the camper van in Fishguard having just visited the lovely Holy Name School in Fishguard. We are shortly off…
I am very proud to be British and next week I am fortunate enough to be undertaking a huge tour of the UK with Ty Goddard of the Education Foundation and EdtechUK. We will be visiting schools across the country shining a light on some of the amazing work being…
The EdExMENA school leaders event this week was a great event held at Le Meridien Hotel and Conference centre in Dubai. I was the closing keynote speaker at the event which is always a great slot to have. Obviously, you always worry that it could be seen as the graveyard…
In all of the 700+ blog posts I’ve written, on this site or ghostwritten or published elsewhere have I ever discussed why I do what I do. I got into teaching because I wanted to make a difference. As a youngster, I used to deliver badge classes in my local…
There are lots of things to love about the Everyone Can Create curriculum that has been developed by Apple and ADEs. With resources around video, photography, music and drawing. I like lots of it. The music section focuses on Garageband but with Logic Pro being such a fantastic tool I…
There are many reasons why I love Teachmeets; the learning, new ideas, networking, a chance to win a prize – there are lots of them. One of the reasons I started organising Teachmeets was because despite being perfectly happy standing in front of a class or students and speaking or even…
I’ve had a few conversations recently where people have complimented me on the quality of my blog posts about edtech tools when comparing them to others. The feedback I received was lovely and so I thought I’d share some of the things that I always try to do and include…
I am very lucky to do what I do. People often say the loveliest things about the work that I do and it’s always very intrinsically rewarding to know that the work I’ve done has had an impact on a teacher, a school or an individual. As I have shared…
It is true to say that one of the best things (for me) about the education profession is that it is ever changing; always developing. As we learn more about how learning takes place and seek to do better by our learners in the classroom, we seek out new ideas,…
Getting support, advice and inspiration for the myriad of different aspects of school life can be a difficult task. Breaking away from your local authority as part of academisation or forming a MAT can make things more difficult as those services you once had easily available can make decision making…
Whether you like it or not data and knowing how to understand, interpret and analyse it is an important facet of the modern educator. There are lots of systems that you probably use every day that hold lots of data; you’ve probably had about 4235242 emails from them recently about GDPR…
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