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Sep 27 2016

Meet and greet

By Mark Anderson Positivity

I taught a lesson today. Ok, so it was somewhat artificial. I was working for Apple at their national RTC (regional training centre) conference at the Belfry near Birmingham. One of my sessions there over the two days was looking at a new App they have called Apple Classroom. It really…

Sep 24 2016

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My interview on the #EdTech Podcast with Sophie Bailey @PodcastEdtech

By Mark Anderson EdTech

It was a gorgeous summer's day when I met Sophie Bailey by the Guardian offices for my interview for her fledgling podcast. It was at a large edtech event looking at edupreneurs who were seeking venture capital for their organisations. In the interview you'll hear me mention a bunch of people.…

Sep 21 2016

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Genius hour and design thinking sketchnote resources

By Mark Anderson Learning

I'm speaking at the national Apple Regional Training Centre conference next week in the UK and one of the sessions I'm running is around the idea of the 'Genius Hour'. For those who haven't come across it before, it was borne out of the idea of Google's 20% time. This…

Sep 18 2016

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Pokemon What?!

By Mark Anderson Learning

I've just been catching up with my timeline following some recent conversations around using Pokemon Go as a tool to engage learners in the classroom. It first hit my attention when I received an email yesterday that Debra Kidd had written about it and then a short while later I…

Sep 03 2016

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Growth mindset for teachers

By Mark Anderson CPD

Originally posted on educationevangelist.com; as I move these things together onto ICT Evangelist, and given the popularity of the sketchnote I made about Growth Mindset for Students, I thought I'd migrate this post over today. Reflecting back on the ideas here, perhaps these are some things that you could think…

Aug 29 2016

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Growth mindset for students…

By Mark Anderson Learning

I recently saw Robert MacMillan (@robfmac) tweet about Growth Mindsets and a resource he had typed up and shared in different formats: https://twitter.com/robfmac/status/605130733141815296 One of the great features of Paper is the 'Mix' sharing ecosystem that it provides allowing for others to share their work so that it can…

Jul 11 2016

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Digital Leader Impact book and the #NTLTDigiLeaders

By Mark Anderson Digital Leaders No Comments

It has been my privilege to work with the teachers across the North Tyneside Learning Trust a number of times this year developing student digital leaders in a number of schools across the trust. It was this work which led to the formation of the Digital Leader Academy which you…

Jul 09 2016

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Periodic table of #STEAM iPad apps

By Mark Anderson Free resource, iPad 10 Comments

First things first. As I started in my last periodic table post, it's never just about the apps. End of. That said being guided around tried and tested apps from the classroom can be really helpful. This new periodic table looks at #STEAM apps, namely those that can link through…

Jul 04 2016

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The Best ICT Applications for Learning podcast

By Mark Anderson ICT One Comment

It was my pleasure to be interviewed by Kelly Long from the Inspiration 4 Teachers podcast a few months ago. She titled the podcast "The Best ICT Applications for Learning" and you can listen to it below. In the podcast we discuss a number of different things such as: How…