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Mar 13 2025

AI for Lesson Planning: A Practical Teacher’s Guide

By Mark Anderson AI, ChatGPT, Digital Strategy, Education, Free resource, Front page, Leadership No Comments

Lesson planning takes time. We all know that. Crafting high-quality, engaging, and well-structured lessons that account for student misconceptions, differentiation, and assessment is an ongoing challenge. What if we had a way to refine lesson plans before we even step into the classroom? That’s exactly what I’ve been exploring in…

Apr 26 2024

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Enhancing Ofsted’s Policy Paper on AI with Actionable Insights

By Mark Anderson AI, CPD, Education, Front page, Ofsted No Comments

Ofsted introduced a policy paper this week on "Ofsted's approach to artificial intelligence (AI)". It's a welcome document, but as always with Ofsted, whilst much of it is useful, it could go some way further. When working on writing 'Perfect ICT Every Lesson' more than ten years ago, a lot…

Feb 08 2024

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Navigating and Leading on New Technology in Education

By Mark Anderson ChatGPT, Digital Leaders, Digital Strategy, EdTech, Education, Work with me No Comments

Embracing the future of education requires more than just adopting new tools; it demands a shift in mindset and approach. Following a great meeting today with one of my British International School overseas clients that I'm supporting, I thought I'd pen some thoughts on embracing new technologies, digital strategy and…

Nov 15 2023

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So What? So That… Tackling Bloom’s 2 Sigma Problem Through AI in Education

By Mark Anderson AI, ChatGPT, Cognitive Science, DigCit, EdTech, Education No Comments

In 1984, Benjamin Bloom's research brought to light a key educational insight with his 2 Sigma Problem. He discovered that students who received one-to-one tutoring performed significantly better than those in conventional classroom settings. This '2 Sigma' improvement highlighted the efficacy of personalised instruction. The challenge since then has been…

Sep 30 2023

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Free resource: Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Education school policy template

By Mark Anderson AI, ChatGPT, Education, Ethics, Free resource, Leadership, Online Safety, Teaching and learning No Comments

I shared on Twitter the other day that “When it comes to learning and teaching in an AI era, strong literacy skills have never been so important.”. The question often arises though when you are unsure about what to do when you’re not quite sure about how to do something,…

Dec 17 2022

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Day 17 – Polypad by @MathigonOrg is today’s reveal on #Appvent22, today written by @RonanMcNicholl

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Education, Maths No Comments

Welcome to day seventeen of #Appvent22. Today we would like to share Polypad by Mathigon. Polypad is essentially a canvas that teachers can use to teach a whole range of mathematical topics across different age ranges. Accessible via the web or via mobile apps, I think it’s definitely worth a…

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 10 2022

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Day 10 of #Appvent22 sees us reveal the fantastic Reading Progress from @MicrosoftEDU

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Education, Free resource, Microsoft, Oracy, Tools No Comments

On this, day 10 of the #AppventCalendar I share a tool that has been a delight to showcase with many of the schools with which I work, and has been well received the world over, from teachers to parents. Today, it gives me great pleasure today to share the great…

Dec 01 2022

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Welcome to Day One of #Appvent22

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech, Education No Comments

Day 01 - FormTimeIdeas Welcome to this, the first day of the 2022 Appvent Calendar! I am so excited to share the 24 amazing apps, their resources, ideas and opportunities for supporting learning, teaching and maybe even reducing some workload along the way over the coming 24 days in the…

Nov 03 2022

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Why the #PedTech narrative misses the mark

By Mark Anderson Digital Strategy, EdTech, Education, ICT No Comments

There are a few people who won’t like what I’m going to say in this post, some may even see it as a personal attack, but it isn’t. I’ll start by saying, I have respect for the person who coined the phrase, @FionaAS. For those who know me and my…