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Apr 09 2020

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…

Jan 20 2020

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Top five things to ask #edtech vendors at #BETT2020

By Mark Anderson Accountability, Computing, Conferences, CPD, EdTech, Education, Featured, ICT No Comments

With Bett upon us, it’s a great time to be thinking about what next for education technology. As you would expect, there has been a plethora of different articles and posts highlighting the best way to make the most of Bett. I should know as I’ve written enough of them…

Dec 22 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Twenty-Two – Own It!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Computing, Digital Leaders, EdTech, esafety, Positivity, Social Media No Comments

Good morning and welcome to Day Twenty Two of the AppVent Calendar! AppVent Calendar - Day 22 Today's app, I think, is very timely as many parents look to satisfy their children's craving for more technology at Christmas. I know just from my own personal experience how much my own…

Dec 06 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Six – OneNote Web Clipper

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Computing, EdTech, ICT, Tools No Comments

Welcome to this, the sixth day on the #Appvent calendar. Today's entry is none other the OneNote Web Clipper! Technology often works best when it is tools that support your day to day activities and make them quick, slick and easy to do. This is where the clipper comes into…

Dec 05 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Five – NetSupport School

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Computing, EdTech, ICT, Tools No Comments

Welcome to this, the fifth day on the #Appvent calendar. Today's entry is none other than NetSupport School! NetSupport School, for me, is the perfect teacher companion if you're in a school where technology-enhanced learning takes place regularly within your classrooms. If you have a BYOD, Windows, iPad, Android tab,…

Jun 27 2019

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Using project sharing and collaboration in @AdobeSpark

By Mark Anderson Chrome, Computing, EdTech, Education, Google No Comments

It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of the Adobe Spark suite of tools I've written about them and shared ways in which they can be used to support teaching and learning many times. Apart from it being completely free for schools to have the full Spark suite, in…

Jun 16 2019

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Tools to help create dual coding influenced resources

By Mark Anderson ADE, Computing, Free resource, Google No Comments

As many will know, Dual Coding is definitely in vogue right now. I'm not going to sit here and echo chamber the great work being done by many - you can find out lots more about dual coding on the learningscientists.org site, for example. What I am going to do…

Nov 23 2018

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What a good one looks like #edtech50

By Mark Anderson Blogs, Computing, Curriculum, edtech50, Education, ICT, Learning No Comments

I'll pre-empt this post by saying, every school that I visit is special. I am very fortunate to have the job I have. Last week was one of the most amazing weeks of my career when I got to travel across the UK to visit schools on the Edtech 50…

Feb 16 2018

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When were you last inspired and how do you achieve this in your classroom?

By Mark Anderson Business, Computing, Digital Leaders, EdTech, Education, Leadership, Learning, T & L, Twitter No Comments

We all need inspiration. Sometimes it's the pay packet at the end of the month which motivates us, sometimes it's job satisfaction, sometimes it's a tweet we've seen or a blog post or book we've read. Sometimes it's a colleague or a lesson of theirs that you've seen. All of…

Nov 22 2017

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Oracy in the curriculum and how technology can help

By Mark Anderson AFL, Computing, EdTech, Literacy, Quotes No Comments

There's no getting away from it, oracy is an essential skill. It is something that can be taught and there's a pretty firm evidence base for it given the research quoted in this paper. Add to this the impassioned article here explaining: "What is oracy and why should every child…