I’ll always remember my birthday this year. Things were starting to get closed down everywhere and on that day, the lockdown here in the UK was announced. Since that day, every day I’ve seen educators working as superheroes, doing their best to help, be supportive, creative, engaging in our own…
Lots of schools use Twitter to share what they are doing, from sharing the fabric of school life and the day to day activities to professional learning opportunities from the school, its teachers sharing the great work of their learners – there are so many ways that schools use the…
If you haven’t heard of Learning by Questions (LbQ) then where have you been? I first heard about LbQ more than a year ago when visiting a school in Northern Ireland. The teacher I was talking to was so enthusiastic about it and its impact on his learners, I had…
I love being a teacher and working in education. In my role now I am very fortunate to work with educators as I do now. Wherever I travel in the world, people comment on the different periodic tables that I’ve made over the years. Even just this last week in…
Morning and welcome to Day Nineteen of the AppVent Calendar! Today’s entry isn’t going to transform your teaching or even the learning of your students. That said, it is one of a few tools I use to ensure that when I share images either socially or within presentations I deliver,…
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…
Making our resources clear and well presented is a key thing to help us when it comes to reducing cognitive load and supporting the ideas around dual coding when creating resources. In this post, I’m going to be sharing some of the tools I use to make some of the…
At BETT in January I launched two Periodic Tables, one for AR and VR which I collaborated on with Steve Bambury and this second table, focused upon apps for learning. It is not the same as the AR and VR table. Whilst both tables are broken down into categories, the…
I recently had a conversation with a teacher on Twitter who wanted to create a presentation slide with scrolling text: I haven’t tried to do it in a while. You can do it through animation but it’s not simple. I would probably do it using a screen record of the…
If you haven’t read about using retrieval and spaced practice in recent years, that’s fine. Retrieval Practice is linked to the idea that by regularly revisiting learning content, you will help flatten out your ‘forgetting curve’ a la Ebbinghaus’ Forgetting Curve. Along with Spaced Practice, these key pieces of information…
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