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Jan 22 2018

Three areas where edtech can help you and ways to do it

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

Workload has always been an issue in the teaching profession. Over the years I've picked up a few handy hints to help me get through it all. There are lots of free tools you can use to help you make your life that little bit easier and take off some…

Jan 11 2018

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Check out the awesome ‘learning tools’ for OneNote

By Mark Anderson ALN / SEN, CPD, EdTech, Food for thought, ICT, Microsoft No Comments

I'm on a bit of a OneNote mission at the moment, it's true. The OneNote Class Notebook add-in is simply superb. I wish the features of OneNote persisted i.e. were the same, across platforms though. The experience you get in Windows simply isn't the same on Mac or iOS. As…

Nov 13 2017

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Bloggers’ block – why bother blogging?

By Mark Anderson Food for thought No Comments

I first started blogging in 2009 after being inspired by the brilliant Tim Rylands and Andy Hutt. Since then I have written more than 650 blog posts on this site and much more on previous blogging sites such as Posterous, wordpress.com and sites such as Staffrm plus articles for magazines…

Nov 01 2017

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Is IT worth it?

By Mark Anderson Computing, EdTech, Education, Food for thought, ICT, Leadership No Comments

There's no getting away from it, technology in education can be an expensive business and there are plenty of companies out there ready to get their snake oil out there to make a fast buck from "helping" educators. With ever decreasing budgets and a Government wanting a world-class education for…

Sep 12 2017

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Ambassador, you’re really spoiling us!

By Mark Anderson ADE, EdTech, Food for thought No Comments

Many will remember the Ferrero Rocher ad from back in 1993 (apologies for non-UK readers - watch the video below for the reference). It was a terrible advert we all thought but in fact, Ferrero saw the advert as being a representation of 'good taste'. In the advert one of…

Sep 10 2017

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#threequestionsEDU with Bukky Yusuf @rondelle10_b

By Mark Anderson #threequestionsEDU, Educator Spotlight, Food for thought No Comments

Thanks to everyone who has checked out the responses to the #threequestionsEDU series so far. With the term starting for many I thought I'd pause it for a few days and let things settle down a bit. I've been really enjoying the responses so far. I find it refreshing to…

Aug 18 2017

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Some things you should know about school trips…

By Mark Anderson Education, educators, Food for thought, NQT, Positivity No Comments

You may have seen in the news recently that Ofsted's Amanda Spielman commented that an "“over-cautious culture has developed in our schools”. She went on to say that this “deprives children of rewarding experiences, of the opportunity to develop resilience and grit and which makes it hard for them to cope…

Jun 21 2017

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Have a break… have a Twitter break

By Mark Anderson Food for thought No Comments

It's that time of year again where being a teacher is probably more stressful than ever. Teachers are worrying about how their classes will be getting on with their exams or phonics tests and classrooms are hotter than ever. There has been talk on Twitter today about an article on…