The more I learn as a grown up, the less I know that I know. There are vast bodies of knowledge out there that I have not had contact with and really could probably avoid in my day to day life. So why shouldn’t I? It would certainly be easier….
[two_third_last] [/two_third_last]I was tempted by the Adjonit Jot Pro stylus but with its bit of plastic on the end, but I couldn’t help but think it would be the equivalent of of trying to walk with your shoe hanging off the end of your foot. The reviews of the Maglus…
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There are lots of different sites and apps for creating QR codes. Here are the ones that I use… Kaywa QR Code For a no nonsense, quick, easy to use website which enables you to create QR codes quickly and easily, this is the one for you. Don’t forget to…
I cannot take credit for these 6 myths of digital technology – I’m lifting them straight from what I thought was a well known and received investigation in to the impact of digital technology on education. It would appear that a lot of the research however is not well known…
Thanks to the #ukedchat team for asking me to be involved again in another session. A bit quieter than usual with it being the Easter break but a great conversation and sharing of ideas took place as per usual. Please see a summary below in a Storify from the chat….
Thanks to Ross Morrison-McGill I hosted #SLTChat last week. In the run up I made a few posters to get people voting on related topics from the poll. You can view these below. Thanks too to all of the brilliant people who took part, contributed and fed in to the…
There are many different blogs out there and some people such as @headguruteacher, @learningspy that get hundreds, even thousands of hits every day. These types of blogs are great and help move thinking forward on lots of different levels. Don’t be phased though. Most of us have started our blogging…
Twitter is awash with so called ‘Twitterati’. The recent Pedagoo London was reportedly a who’s who of them. I’m supposedly one of them. I guess with some 12,000 followers I guess I might be. I don’t know. You can decide. Certainly though, there are folk out there who are blogging,…
There doesn’t really seem to be a clear common consensus as to whether a Twitter PLN should be a professional or a personal learning network. Certainly I think it should probably be a bit of both. Also, as when dealing with all social media, you should be mindful of your…
Unless you’ve been living under some kind of rock recently there has been huge debate about whether or not lessons should be graded, particularly by Ofsted inspectors. I could link to loads of different blog posts and articles related to this; even Radio 4 were discussing it on the Today…
I’ve sung the praises of Gooru for some time now but haven’t blogged about it and thought it was about time that I did. Gooru is great as a launch page for browsers in schools because of the content it kicks you off with. It might not give you the…
One of the things that I like to do with my classes involves giving them an exit ticket at the end of the lesson. You can use exit tickets for a variety of uses: Students creating their own learning outcomes for next lesson Setting targets for their next lesson Highlighting…
Make it human When thinking about school data I’m always drawn to thinking about the seminal character on Star Trek The Next Generation played by Brent Spiner. The character, an android, is always striving to make himself as human as possible. “I am, perhaps, not nearly so human as I…
We all work in a very pressured world. There are so many stake holders in education, that showing appreciation is rarely at the top of the list for any teacher. Well, it should be, and is at the heart of building positive relationships. Here are my top five hints…
We’ve been looking at display recently and so I thought I’d ask Twitter for some examples on what would make a great display and for fellow Twitter folk to share photos of their favourite displays. I was not disappointed (see the Storify at the end of this blog post for…
I could probably write a lot more than this but here are my top 5 tips for Teachmeet at the moment. I suspect others would place other things or replace things in here too and that’s fine. Every TeachMeet is different. I hope these tips help you with yours –…
Seating plans are a real help in the classroom. They help you to map out your learners around the room, help with differentiation, allow you to build in support and extension structures to your classroom and much much more. In a recent sharing session at work, a colleague of mine…
The phrase, “it’s easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission” is something I’ve heard many people say. I’ve also heard folk say that “you catch more flies with honey”. So in that spirit, in trying to help bring about positive changes in your school; sometimes…
As mentioned in my post previously here about the hashtag #MobilePGCE where I asked Tweachers to give advice to trainee teachers about why they might want to use technology, I mentioned I was running a session with trainees on that topic. I broke the session down in to four distinct…
I really like Quipio. I may have even blogged about it before but it is super handy. Check out what you can do…. Your browser does not support the video tag
I asked recently on Twitter why trainee teachers should learn about how to use technology in the classroom as part of their training. This was to use in a session I’m doing with some trainee teachers this coming week. The results of the twitter question are pretty interesting and can…
In an attempt to share some of my ideas on teaching and learning and to help cement some of my thoughts in to something more concrete, I aim to write a top 5 list of ideas to help in the classroom each week on topics I’m thinking about at the…
The TeachMeet at BETT was another brilliant affair this year and for the first time ever it was held in the massive arena in the centre of the Excel centre. It was just like the boxing that took place there in the Olympics some education technology giants stood up and…
Now I’m hoping that with a title to the post as it is I don’t end up being put on every filter list going – as educators reading this you will probably know that I am of course talking about ‘Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time’. Championed by @jackiebeere in many…
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