I’ve long shared what I call my Bananarama principle in that ‘It Ain’t [so much] What You Do It’s The Way That You Do It, And That’s What Gets Results’ and as such, it’s a great hook to use when thinking about your use of technology for any purpose. It’s…
Originally posted and written as a guest blog for now>press>play here. I have always shared that technology in education is too important (and expensive) to leave to chance, and never more so in these cash-strapped times. Budgets have always been a stumbling block for schools wanting to make the most…
Welcome to Day Two of #Appvent22. We are delighted to share another calendar of superb apps, tools, and services. With a great start to the event yesterday, we proceed today with an award-winning platform that is having a huge impact on staff wellbeing. Staff wellbeing has rightly become a hot…
My work with schools most commonly focuses on a number of key areas. Primarily it is based on teaching and learning with technology, purposeful and effective approaches to using technology in the classroom, leadership support around digital strategy and what the evidence says works when it comes to technology in…
Welcome to Day Eight of the 2021 Appvent Calendar! Today @RonanMcNichol shares classroom.cloud from NetSupport. classroom.cloud provides a versatile set of tools to safely manage your classroom What is classroom.cloud? classroom.cloud provides a collection of tools to help students learn in a safe and productive way when using devices. Developed by NetSupport…
So what? Such a useful question to ask when it comes to thinking about what you can do and then perhaps should do with technology in education. So much technology has a propensity to be gimmicky. It is a fine balancing act to choose between those activities with technology that…
Who should lead on digital in your school? It’s a question I’m often asked. Many think it should fall upon the shoulders of the Head of Computing, as that’s the most logical person to carry forward any digital projects. Some think it should fall to somebody with teaching and learning…
Well, here we are again, back in lockdown and remote learning in full swing. As I look around the Twittersphere there are many strands to learning and teaching. On the one hand, you have Gavin Williamson and cronies asking for parents to tattle on schools not doing well. You have…
It’s that time of the year to be reflective and to think ahead and make plans. Reflecting back on 2020, one of the few silver linings, as noted by many, was the huge inroads into the progress made by the teaching profession in improving both their confidence and competence in…
“The key is in not spending time, but in investing it.” – Stephen R. Covey There are many acronyms and buzzwords in lots of different professions; I would argue none so much as in education. Whether it’s important you know the difference between your SIP and DIP or how to…
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