Technology can help so much both in terms of learning and teaching. In my recent presentation for #TMEastLondon I shared a bunch of time-saving and simple tools, ideas and techniques that you can use in and out of the classroom to make your life easier. Watch the short video below…
Many apps on the iPad work without any wifi at all. We have become accustomed to being connected when working with access to a plethora of resources because an internet connection is just part of our everyday working lives now, but sometimes it isn’t available. Many of the apps that…
I’ve been having a brilliant few weeks (sorry). I’ve: worked with the awesome team at New Wave Federation around iPad use and have been busy planning the TeachMeet Resolutions event to be held in January with Michelle Thomas, the executive head of the Federation. travelled to China and worked with…
As you may have noticed via my social media I recently did the opening keynote on the teacher day and the same on the leadership day at the JESS Digital Innovation Summit in Dubai. Whilst there I met one of their teachers, Tom Edge who presented and shared a great…
Mahatma Ghandi needs no introduction. Something he is famously quoted as having said is; “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. As it goes: “there is no reliable documentary evidence for the quotation. The closest verifiable remark we have from Gandhi is this: “If we could change…
It’s been around for a while now and it continues to feature as one of the apps I turn to on a daily basis, such is its ease of use and powerful output. I talk of course about the brilliant Adobe Spark Post app. Free as an app on iOS…
One of the key roles of a teacher is to act as role models for the young people in the classes within which they teach. I’m a firm believer in working with colleagues the same way as you would with children. I don’t mean that you treat adults as if they’re…
I love technology, it has to be said – why else would I have a Twitter handle like @ICTEvangelist. However geeky I am about technology though, I’m even more geeky about teaching and learning. We read (or at least it seems) on an all too regular basis about how using…
I taught a lesson today. Ok, so it was somewhat artificial. I was working for Apple at their national RTC (regional training centre) conference at the Belfry near Birmingham. One of my sessions there over the two days was looking at a new App they have called Apple Classroom. It really…
It was a gorgeous summer’s day when I met Sophie Bailey by the Guardian offices for my interview for her fledgling podcast. It was at a large edtech event looking at edupreneurs who were seeking venture capital for their organisations. In the interview you’ll hear me mention a bunch of people….
I love QR codes and have done for a long time. I’ve written some posts on the topic including this one which talks about a variety of different sites you can use to create them including some pretty cool visual ones. This post includes a resource for making your own…
I’m speaking at the national Apple Regional Training Centre conference next week in the UK and one of the sessions I’m running is around the idea of the ‘Genius Hour’. For those who haven’t come across it before, it was borne out of the idea of Google’s 20% time. This…
I’ve just been catching up with my timeline following some recent conversations around using Pokemon Go as a tool to engage learners in the classroom. It first hit my attention when I received an email yesterday that Debra Kidd had written about it and then a short while later I…
Email is great. I love it. Such a quick, efficient and immediate means of communication. Many of us use it and for good reason. Whenever I have a corridor conversation with a colleague I always make sure that I follow it up with an immediate email to summarise the conversation…
Are you a school or educator using Apple technologies? Chances are that if you are a school or educator with iPads or other Apple technology, you’ll want some decent opportunities for CPD. If you’re in this position then Apple have come up with something I’m confident you’ll be interested…
I’ve seen lots of blog posts these past few weeks… Ten things for NQTs, ten things for educators as we start this academic year, ten things as a teacher wanting to use tech, as a leader, so forth and so on… New Year Resolutions are funny things… around the actual…
Originally posted on educationevangelist.com; as I move these things together onto ICT Evangelist, and given the popularity of the sketchnote I made about Growth Mindset for Students, I thought I’d migrate this post over today. Reflecting back on the ideas here, perhaps these are some things that you could think…
International travel is something that I really love. As a child my parents weren’t really into it and it wasn’t until I went on the French exchange as a teenager I got my first experience of travelling abroad. Jump forwards a few years to the work I am doing now…
I recently saw Robert MacMillan (@robfmac) tweet about Growth Mindsets and a resource he had typed up and shared in different formats: #growthmindset Download ithttp://t.co/ZOVphz6FRR (word)http://t.co/Dtt2N4YRvd (pdf)http://t.co/ZIgWzIvb2E (pages) pic.twitter.com/JOPmHdWlcx — RobertMacmillan (@robfmac) May 31, 2015 One of the great features of Paper is the ‘Mix’ sharing ecosystem that it…
I was very fortunate to be asked to run a session this week with some Twitter super-heroines of mine – Monica Burns (@ClassTechTips), Kelly Grogan (@KellyEd121) and Kristin Ziemke (@KristinZiemke). We explored a number of different ways in which we all utilise social media to amplify our voices as educators….
The last week in July is always a special one for me. It’s the week that we normally see the Apple Distinguished Educator (ADE) Institutes taking place around the globe. Traditionally the Institutes work on a two year rotation. One year there will be a new intake of ADE’s (that…
First introduced to me recently by Julian Wood, Prisma is a simply fab free and simple to use app that can revolutionise your photos and how you think about them. Fantastic for the Art classroom taking on board lots of different artists styles. Check out the result of just some of…
It has been my privilege to work with the teachers across the North Tyneside Learning Trust a number of times this year developing student digital leaders in a number of schools across the trust. It was this work which led to the formation of the Digital Leader Academy which you…
Getting the start of a lesson right is such an important thing. If you don’t switch the students on right away then you can lose them pretty quickly. I’ve written previously about the importance of routines and in that post part of what I was saying was about the importance of…
I am lucky to have worked with some phenomenal teachers over my professional years. Some of them are so called ‘edu-celebrities’ who have won awards for their blogs and recognised in various polls and are thought of as being inspiring by many. Some are people who deliver some of the…
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