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Jan 17 2025

Cut Through the Hype: Your Essential 2025 AI Almanac for Educators ready for BETT 2025

By Mark Anderson AI, Books, EdTech, Free resource No Comments

Every year at BETT, we're bombarded with EdTech vendors showcasing the latest AI-driven tools, each promising to transform teaching and learning. But how often do these pitches come loaded with technical jargon and buzzwords that leave you wondering what’s really under the hood? If you’ve ever nodded along while hearing…

May 17 2022

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Book Review: So, you want to learn how to code?

By Mark Anderson Books, Computing, Resources No Comments

Teaching coding isn't easy, I know, I did it for many years. It was particularly difficult for me because, like many teachers of ICT and Computing, it wasn't my specialist subject. Sure, I had some coding experience from my youth, spending many happy hours typing in code from a magazine…

Jul 16 2021

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Book Review: My Secret #Edtech Diary

By Mark Anderson Books, CPD, EdTech, Thought Leadership No Comments

As educators and leaders in education, we have many moral imperatives regarding the young people and communities we serve. As someone who literally is the ICT Evangelist, you might think, “Well of course he’s going to say that”, but what Kingsley does in his ‘Secret #Edtech Diary’ is give you…

Dec 24 2020

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Welcome, as we open the final day on the 2020 #AppventCalendar and we find @BookCreatorApp!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Books, Chrome, Computing, EdTech, iPad No Comments

Welcome to day 24, the final day of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! What a fantastic selection of great apps we’ve had across the 24 days this year. Alongside my entries and guest entries, this year I’ve extended the initiative across not just ictevangelist.com but across to the global-edtech.com team…

Apr 09 2020

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The Periodic Table Of Educational Books To Read Today 2020

By Mark Anderson Books, Cognitive Science, EdTech, educators, Food for thought, Infographics, Posters No Comments

It was back in June last year when I first started preparing for another periodic table of books to read. Of all of the different tables that I make, it is the books one which definitely takes the most time and work. https://twitter.com/ICTEvangelist/status/1143224909675532288?s=20 In making this table I've read more…

Sep 16 2018

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The Periodic Table of Educational Books to read today

By Mark Anderson Books, CPD, educators, Free resource, Learning No Comments

It is true to say that one of the best things (for me) about the education profession is that it is ever changing; always developing. As we learn more about how learning takes place and seek to do better by our learners in the classroom, we seek out new ideas,…

May 09 2018

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Educator collaboration made this free book possible

By Mark Anderson Books, Chrome, EdTech, Education, Free resource, Learning, Literacy No Comments

A few months ago I wrote about Book Creator and how they have opened up collaboration on their online Chrome based platform for Book Creator. My immediate thoughts were (in this order): Awesome When will this come to iPad (the answer is 'soon') How can we as educators model some…

Mar 01 2018

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Collaboration feature now available in Book Creator for Chrome!

By Mark Anderson Books, Chrome, EdTech, Learning No Comments

A quick search of my site will bring up a whole bunch of articles linked to the brilliant work that can be done with Book Creator. A long-time supporter of Book Creator, it has ranked highly on my list of essential tools for learning in the classroom. It has been…

Apr 24 2015

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New book and iTunes U course on App Smashing

By Mark Anderson Books 3 Comments

I've been a big fan of Greg Kulowiec's idea of App Smashing for some time. This is why when I was asked to run some sessions at a conference in Istanbul recently I chose to run a 3 hour session on App Smashing. To support the session I created an iTunes U…

Feb 18 2015

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TechnoTeaching: a review

By Mark Anderson Books 3 Comments

One person I really value in my PLN is an educator named Nicole Ponsford. She wrote a guest post for the blog last summer when I ran the #TeachingHighlight series. When she got in touch to say that she'd co-authored a book, it was no surprise to me that the book…