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More than a decade of practical writing on EdTech, AI and digital strategy: what works, what doesn’t, and what it means for your classroom on Monday morning. Recognised as a Vuelio Top 10 UK education blog and UK Blog Awards Education winner, and a GESS Education Awards 2021 winner with LearnLiveUAE, with 9,630 subscribers reading every post.
It always amazes me the impact that blogging has. I met someone today, @ComptonAndy, at the Apple RTC conference near Birmingham. He said something to me along the lines of… “are you Mark Anderson of Twitter fame?” Crazy. But is it? I’m always bowled over by the positive comments from…
There’s a problem I’ve noticed over the years between the curriculum at primary and that of secondary. It’s almost like as the kids get older so their sense of curiosity awe and wonder gets beaten out of them at every single step. The recent changes to the National Curriculum at…
I’ve been working with RM Education at their Seminars this past week. My brief was to share with delegates ideas that would bring about memorable lessons for pupils. In the planning phases I was thinking about what I could do. How I could stand in front of 100 or so…
More Ed, Less Tech is the title of my new ‘One Best Thing’ book made following the ADE institute in Amsterdam earlier this year. It is an ongoing project that Apple asks its ADEs to complete at their institute for educators that takes place each year and I am so…
I have been curating a Padlet wall to embed in my new book uploaded to iBooks today (More Ed, Less Tech). Thanks to my amazing PLN there are now more than 100 different responses (with far more than 100 ideas) on iOS Apps and ideas for their use added to the…
Adobe Slate, the popular iPad App is now available to use for free in browser. The fact that you can now access this from your laptop, Chromebook, Macbook is very powerful. I’ve been a fan of Adobe Slate for some time. The number of Apps provided by Adobe on the…
This post examines how to make an impact with edtech in your school or classroom. I’ve been playing with Adobe Slate again… I can’t help myself… it is such a lovely tool to use. And so, in this post I explore more deeply the ideas originally used in this post on…
Explain Everything – probably one of the most written about Apps on my blog. It works on pretty much every device bar an Apple Watch and has the propensity to support and enhance learning in multitudes of different ways. I really love how the guys work too. They really listen…
Teaching is one of the few professions where, as you progress and climb the educational ladder, the job you are doing begins to become almost unrecognisable. The daily routine of the full time class teacher slowly starts to fade and in its place is something that begins to resemble a…
I wrote in my book about the power of using word clouds in the classroom. They are such a good tool for activities linked to literacy, problem solving and much more. The classic Wordle and Tagxedo still rank highly in my estimation but as more and more use of technology…
I wrote recently about adding fonts to your iOS devices and so I thought I would also share how you can add custom fonts to your Mac or PC too. It’s a really simple process. Before that though I thought I would share more about the brilliant dafont site. Dafont…
It’s no secret that I love Book Creator. It’s been a staple of my iPad workflow with students for a long time. Simple to use with the opportunity to enable pupils to create their own books; the power of publishing is simply epic in terms of the agency it gives…
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