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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.
Be happy and welcome in the new year with your learners. My timeline is full of teachers who are anxious about returning to work on Monday. There has been a flurry of planning, marking and general knot-tying of stomachs about the demands and responsibilities that may face us in the…
Obviously not exhaustive, but a few more ‘creative’ ideas for using Apple’s brilliant free piece of software, iBook Author rather than the traditional ways you might use it. 1 – An obvious use it to write your own iBook about your teaching practice, so that you can share your ideas…
Just a short video to show how to search for images on Google Image search using existing images. I find this particularly useful when either searching for higher resolution versions of images I already have or when I’m looking for similar images that I already have. Have fun!
#Nurture1314 Reflection: I guess it’s somewhat fitting that in what may have been one of my most successful (professionally) to date, this is my 251st post on my blog and that since starting counting in April my blog has had more than 126,000 unique visitors. Reflecting upon what I’ve managed…
Following discussions on Twitter, I combined comments, replies and posts to the question at the title of this post in to a Storify – read the responses below. [View the story “Has having iPads in your classroom changed teaching & learning?” on Storify]
Workflow – the way in which work flows from one application or person to another in order to progress and develop said work either by addition or development through peer, teacher formative feedback and critique. Anyone want to add anything to that to develop the explanation further when it comes…
I’m a big fan of Twitter – short messages, getting your point across succinctly… with that in mind, I’m going to keep this post short and sweet. Just five tried and tested techniques to assist with questioning in your classroom. One of the features of an outstanding classroom is one where…
I’ve been struck recently by the lack of coverage of e-safety by some of the people I talk with on Twitter and elsewhere. E-safety and the safeguarding of our young people online is of paramount importance. I’ll be writing more about this in the near future, but as part of…
Those of you that know me will know that I’ve been a massive fan of Explain Everything for a very long time now. It’s widely regarded as one of the best apps for learning on iPad and quite rightly so. As a device for supporting flipped learning it is brilliant….
Imagine Explain Everything with a few less sharing options or annotation features and you’ve got Shadow Puppet. So why use it if you have EE? Well, it’s just the ease, simplicity and opportunity of just quickly being able to interact with images, record your voice and then share with others….
The secret of teaching success isn’t mythical. It isn’t even that hard to work out. Watch any amazing teacher in their classroom and it is clear. The key to teaching success is to care about your learners and build relationships with them. For them to know that you really give…
We don’t use technology in our lessons because we have to,. We don’t use technology because OFSTED says so. We use technology in our lessons because it helps students to maximise their learning potential, to allow creative opportunities for learning, which integrates differentiation and facilitates learning in the most meaningful…
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