Alongside other presentations and keynotes at Bett Show this year, one of my sessions was in the School Leaders Summit which I punnily titled ‘Sort IT out’… Listening to @ICTEvangelist talking about sorting IT out (geddit?) @Bett_show pic.twitter.com/MS6Nv6LQqE — José Picardo (@josepicardoSHS) January 22, 2016 It was a presentation which…
I was very pleased when Pivotal got in touch to enquire if I’d like to be interviewed for the Pivotal Podcast. A podcast that has been running for some time now with more than 100 interviews with many people who inspire me in education, it was a real privilege and…
Many years ago, I was a member of the Boys’ Brigade. It formed an important part of my formative years, given that I was a member from the age of 5 to 18. As you will hear in my podcast with Pivotal Education this week, it was my involvement with…
Bett was simply brilliant this year (again!). One of the first things I saw when I arrived made me smile a lot. I had been messaged a number of times about this but I had yet to see it for myself: Bonkers to have my face on the cover of…
First up, this isn’t a paid endorsement or anything like that. I don’t do those kind of things and if I did I’d tell you up front, a bit like I am now. I first met CV Plus creator, Harriet Churchward back in 2015 at a TES Labs event in…
A while ago I created an infographic featuring 30 apps for the paperless iPad classroom. Today I’ve created a similar type of infographic but with essential Chromebook tools and apps for the classroom. It features 18 different tools that I have used with children in my classrooms over the years…
Inspiring reading and writing in young people can sometimes be a challenge, but utilising popular media and technology often has a big impact on pupil engagement in this area. The rather fab text-based adventure game Lifeline was just named Apple’s App of the Week. To tie in with this, it is…
I’ve been working the awesome Stephenson Memorial School and the North Tyneside Learning Trust for some time now. It was my pleasure to be involved in their RTC launch last year and other events there across the day I was there. I will write about the Digital Leader academy that I…
I’m pleased to share my itinerary at #BETT16 with you. I’m involved in a number of different areas and am pleased to be involved in some ground-breaking activities too. BETT is always a tiring few days. Ian Addison wrote some great advice a few years ago and his advice still stands…
This popular post originated on my Staffrm account but I thought I’d update it a bit and transfer it to my own site, so here it is… Ten things every educator should know about their iPad… 1. Pressing the home button and the standby button will take a screen shot…
Teachers are enthusiastic and dynamic, highly intelligent and share a passion for wanting to make a difference in this world. They can also be quirky however and this is as a result of there being no other job like theirs. They become a breed apart from the rest of the…
One of my favourite mantras for teaching and learning are those based around keeping it real simple. The cumulative effect (sometimes thought of as marginal learning gains (hat tip to Zoë Elder)) of these simple little ideas can lead to a big difference in the classroom. Keep it simple silly…
In lieu of writing a reflective blog for this year I thought I would share the top ten iPad Apps that have been impactful in my working with hundreds of schools and teachers around the world this year. With a focus on a few key types of Apps such as…
The popular plugin for WordPress, Jetpack, has helpfully compiled some stats on my blog for 2015. In addition to many nominations for best blog and also winning the UK Blog Awards Education blog of the year, there are some interesting stats (at least I find them interesting) too. My continued…
In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m quite a fan of the iPad (the Lollipop Nexus 9’s not too bad either). Not because of its design or because its by Apple or any of that, but because of its keen heritage in the learning arena. Any one who knows me will…
I wrote a post a while ago titled ‘Do superheroes cry‘ which contained deep within it some mindfulness tips for leaders. Leadership is something which carries along with it management roles but sometimes leaders can forget about the effect their actions and decisions can have upon others. Head teacher John…
It’s easy to feel the pressure that your subject isn’t that important; especially when you’re not English, Maths or one of the sciences. So how do you let everyone know that your subject is worth a damn? It should go without saying that of course, you’ll be doing all of the…
Lots of emails and tweets are flying around at the moment with their predictions for a number of things such as edtech in 2016, and there certainly seem to be some fantastic developments in the pipeline for technology in education. One such email came in this morning from Nesta with…
To coin a phrase, have you ever wondered how to host a Twitter chat like a champion? I’ve been fortunate enough to have been asked to host a number of different Twitter chats over the years such as #SLTchat, #ukedchat, #BETTchat, #aussieED etc. and as I’ve done more and more…
Music player for Google Drive is a free and simple to use, lightweight player for audio content you have in Google Drive. This makes it really handy to listen to all of those podcasts or audio recordings you’ve had your children send to you via Google Classroom. You can access…
Some might say that focusing an entire post on one keyboard shortcut might be a bit bonkers, but oh no… not with Ctrl + A. Combine these two powerful little keys together and you’ll be going all ‘select all’ with everything in no time at all! Why do I rate this shortcut…
So it seems that my post from last week caused a bit of a furore among technicians; no surprise there I guess given the title although some (wrongly) saw the post as a strategic and personal attack upon those in technical roles in schools. Having read through many pages of forum posts…
AppShareLive is a new initiative where I hope to get a bunch of educators together each month to share some technology that is working for them in their classroom. I was really pleased with the first edition of #appsharelive yesterday, you can view it again below via YouTube. This is…
The problem with technicians, you know who I mean – technical support… And this isn’t to say that this is a global issue and a problem everywhere. Some schools, in fact in many schools, it is the job of a teacher to be network manager or the person who manages…
I loved catching up with the brilliant Steve Bunce at the Apple RTC Winter Conference last week at the Belfry. In his simply fab presentation about coding, he spent some time looking at a variety of ways in which you can use music to teach children about loops. In this…
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