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Nov 12 2020

Catch-up funding and how to make the most of it

By Mark Anderson Distance Learning, Food for thought, ICT, Leadership, Online Learning, Remote Learning, Resources No Comments

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 8 months, COVID has had a huge impact on education and the progress and lives of all of our learners in our schools. It has proven to be difficult for school leaders to stay ahead of the curve in terms…

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…

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…

Jan 09 2020

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Never in my lifetime…

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, Food for thought, Thought Leadership, VR No Comments

What would you do if you could teach a lesson in a Holodeck? It's not long now until the world's largest educational technology tradeshow, BETT arrives. Slowly but surely the tradeshow has improved its offer for those visiting. Accredited CPD, real-stories being shared, more and more, my vision of BETT…

Nov 29 2019

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I didn’t know you could do that! Five #edtech ideas in five minutes

By Mark Anderson Conferences, CPD, EdTech, Food for thought, Resources No Comments

I'm very pleased to be working closely with NetSupport again at BETT and you will be able to find me on their stand every day throughout the trade fair. There will be a plethora of amazing presenters on the stand again delivering non-sponsored content, sharing their stories from their classrooms…

May 13 2019

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Why am I on tour (and a free conference for you!)

By Mark Anderson EdTech, Education, educators, Food for thought No Comments

ICT Evangelist on Tour! This week sees me on the road visiting schools that are customers of Frog Education. With schools scrutinising every penny spent; teachers under increasing pressure to deal with issues in their school often with less resources and newly formed MATs and their schools dealing with bigger…

Nov 04 2018

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What is your purpose?

By Mark Anderson Food for thought No Comments

In all of the 700+ blog posts I’ve written, on this site or ghostwritten or published elsewhere have I ever discussed why I do what I do. I got into teaching because I wanted to make a difference. As a youngster, I used to deliver badge classes in my local…

Sep 18 2018

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What I learned about edtech in Finland at #SETTFIN

By Mark Anderson Cognitive Science, Food for thought, Learning, Pedagogy first, Positivity, Quotes, research, T & L No Comments

I am very lucky to do what I do. People often say the loveliest things about the work that I do and it’s always very intrinsically rewarding to know that the work I’ve done has had an impact on a teacher, a school or an individual. As I have shared…

May 30 2018

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Data, information and knowing your learners

By Mark Anderson Cognitive Science, Curriculum, Data, EdTech, Education, Food for thought No Comments

Whether you like it or not data and knowing how to understand, interpret and analyse it is an important facet of the modern educator. There are lots of systems that you probably use every day that hold lots of data; you've probably had about 4235242 emails from them recently about GDPR…