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Feb 03 2025

Tech-Enhanced UDL for Inclusive Classrooms

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Front page, Inclusion, UDL No Comments

If you saw any of my writing before the winter break that wasn't the #24DaysOfAI posts, you'll have been hard-pressed to not see me sharing about inclusion, accessibility and UDL (Universal Design for Learning). ⁣ ⁣ Technology can break down barriers and create truly inclusive learning environments. With the right…

Dec 20 2024

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What’s essential for some, can be useful for all

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Front page, Inclusion, iPad, UDL No Comments

Originally shared on LinkedIn, this post focuses on ways that we can use technology, particularly iPad, although the resources can be pivoted for classrooms with all types of hardware, from Chromebooks to laptops, to MacBooks, focuses on the idea that "What’s essential for some, can be useful for all." When…

Dec 15 2022

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Day 15 of #Appvent22 sees @KristinCHarr sharing the new Live Captions feature from #MicrosoftEDU

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Appvent, Microsoft No Comments

Welcome to day fifteen of #Appvent22, and what a great two weeks we have had. We would like to say a big thank you to everyone that has contributed to making this a success so far. With yesterday’s superb tool for reducing anxiety levels, Molehill Mountain, and our very first…

Dec 14 2022

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Welcome to day 14 of #Appvent22 where guest contributor @ka81 shares Molehill Mountain, an app for autistic people who experience anxiety

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Appvent, Education, Inclusion No Comments

Today on Day 15 we welcome Caroline Keep as our guest contributor to the Appvent Calendar. An educator, data scientist, national TES award-winning teacher and fellow FED member, Caroline has many accolades under her belt. Her current work sees her as a Doctoral Researcher in developing digitalisation tools in education…

Dec 13 2022

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Welcome to Day 13 on #Appvent22 with Read&Write from @texthelp, today shared by guest @AleksandraHouse

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to day thirteen of #Appvent22, and we really hope you are enjoying the apps we have reviewed thus far! Today’s entry was written by Aleks House. Aleks is an ESOL learner, teacher, TLA manager, and Google Certified Educator. With over twelve years of experience, Aleks is part of a…

Jan 28 2022

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The best hidden feature in iOS for you to check out!

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, top tips No Comments

Originally introduced in iOS 14, this feature is so useful yet despite being really helpful in lots of scenarios for iPhone users, I am still amazed at the number of people who haven't heard of it or stumbled upon it. In writing this article I read one author talk about…

Sep 07 2021

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5 great things to try with Apple Clips this year

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, ADE, Appvent, EdTech, iPad, iPad apps No Comments

Apple Clips has been around for a few years now. It’s a clever app for iPad and iPhone for making short video clips that can be enhanced in any number of ways using emoji, text, symbols, green-screen effects, AR and more! It’s become a firm favourite in many Primary school…

Dec 02 2020

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#AppventCalendar – Day Two – @classroomcloud_

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Appvent, Distance Learning, EdTech, Online Learning, Remote Learning No Comments

Welcome to Day Two of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! We are so pleased and proud to be bringing you another calendar of amazing tools, apps and services that can help support teaching, learning, productivity and being safe online. With a great start to the event with our first app yesterday,…

Apr 09 2020

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Learning in Quarantine – Part Two

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Accountability, Computing, Covid, EdTech, Featured, Food for thought, Learning No Comments

With School Closed... Part Two This post was originally posted on the 15/03/2020 on the Independent Thinking blog here. Following on from the previous blog I put out with Independent Thinking last week - not mention this one written for us by Ben Keeling head of Shrewsbury School in Hong Kong - we…

Apr 09 2020

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Learning in Quarantine… Part One

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, Covid, EdTech, Ethics, Food for thought, Leadership, Learning, Pedagogy first No Comments

With School Closed... Part One This post was originally posted on the 2/3/20 on the Independent Thinking blog here. "There are many things to consider at times like these. If you are a school leader you’ll be worried about your community, your students, your colleagues, the school site and keeping…