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Aug 13 2017

Wellbeing, workload and whizzy ways to improve both

By Mark Anderson CPD, EdTech, ICT, iPad No Comments

Goodness knows mental health and wellbeing is an issue which is underfunded and under resourced so it was a real pleasure to be asked to keynote at the Cardiff and Vale College's Inset days exploring both wellbeing and mental health. My keynote focussed upon how we can use technology to…

Jun 11 2017

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50 popular hashtags to help develop your professional learning

By Mark Anderson CPD, Social Media, T & L, Twitter No Comments

What is a hashtag? Hashtags for the uninitiated are those words you see sometimes with the # symbol in front of them. Many of my UK readers will have seen the #GE2017 hashtag these past few weeks on Twitter. Most people tweeting or posting on Instagram and other social media about…

Feb 07 2017

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Making a difference to AFL with iPad

By Mark Anderson AFL, CPD, ICT, iPad, iPad apps No Comments

As posted the other day when I shared my 'Making IT work with iPad' post, I am currently working through sharing my different presentations from #BETT2017. This post will contain my presentation that looked at different tools you can use on your iPad to support AFL in the classroom. One…

Feb 01 2017

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#ATI2017 – Advanced Teacher Institute

By Mark Anderson ADE, CPD, EdTech, ICT, iPad, Leadership No Comments

One of the most difficult things I found as a leader with responsibility for the use of iPads in the school was finding quality CPD for myself as I was more often than not the person organising or delivering that training. People often ask me where I find out about…

Jan 15 2017

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I got it off Google Images…

By Mark Anderson CPD, educators, ICT, Social Media

I often ask teachers if they use Google Images for the pictures they use in the resources they make for the classroom. The majority of teachers tell me they use Google Images for all their images. They simply go to the site, search for their image, grab the best one and…

Dec 31 2016

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Is that #EdTech tool pedagogically valid

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Free resource, Learning, Pedagogy first, Resources No Comments

I read a blog post the other day it resonated because so much of its content was on a level with my thinking around technology use in the classroom too. The post written by Paul Moss (@EDmerger) was called ‘Is that edtech tool pedagogically valid?’ and at the end of…

Sep 03 2016

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Growth mindset for teachers

By Mark Anderson CPD

Originally posted on educationevangelist.com; as I move these things together onto ICT Evangelist, and given the popularity of the sketchnote I made about Growth Mindset for Students, I thought I'd migrate this post over today. Reflecting back on the ideas here, perhaps these are some things that you could think…

Aug 30 2016

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Hong Kong Learning

By Mark Anderson CPD

International travel is something that I really love. As a child my parents weren’t really into it and it wasn’t until I went on the French exchange as a teenager I got my first experience of travelling abroad. Jump forwards a few years to the work I am doing now…

Jun 06 2016

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Share the love

By Mark Anderson CPD 5 Comments

I think of myself as being really fortunate to have been blogging like I have for such a long time. I look back at the things I've done, the people I've worked with, the impact I've had and I feel really proud. When I first started out sharing like I…

Jun 01 2016

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The Modern Educator – part one

By Mark Anderson Learning 9 Comments

As noted in some of my tweets recently I am undertaking some work with Independent Thinking on the Isle of Man this week. It's a really exciting project. My part of it is looking at what it takes to be a modern educator. I obviously have my points of view…