I love the Bett Show. When I first attended well over a decade ago I wasn’t that engaged. It was all companies trying to sell me things and it wasn’t really anything that was special for me. Nowadays it’s a completely different story… There are learn live theatres with seminars, discussion…
Great lessons have key characteristics. Many edu-bloggers have discussed this but for me, the one that nails it is Tom Sherrington where he discusses the topic in some detail in his ‘Great Lessons‘ series on his brilliant blog. He breaks these down in to ten key areas: Probing (questioning) Rigour (pitch and tone of…
Who would have thought it? Google now have an impressive number of apps available on the iOS App Store which can help, support and enhance learning. Of the 32 available that are optimised for iPad, I can easily see there being use for most of them in a learning space,…
As you’ll know, I’m no stranger to Teachmeets but the one I attended last night in Oxford, organised by the dapper Amjad Ali had the ingredients of a really special learning & sharing experience. It was honest, fun, reflective, full of sharing, laughter and learning. I’ll say it here –…
Social media in education has the power to transform all manner of aspects of school life. How students learn, how parents interact with the school, how teachers can develop their CPD, can all be transformed through social media. Today’s BettChat focused on this very topic. The discussion was wide and varied…
1. No two days, classes, students, are the same. It goes in many ways to what Coe said in his recent report: “Ultimately, the definition of effective teaching is that which results in the best possible student outcomes. There is currently no guaranteed recipe for achieving this: no specifiable combination…
I’m liking the updated sections in the App Store that have been broken down by different learning stage. Have you seen them? They’re broken down by key stage and then within each of those sections they’re broken down further by learning activity. What is also nice is to see the…
My presentation for #TMStockport was quite a difficult choice. Knowing who else was speaking and the topic of use of technology, I wanted to do something on purposeful use – yes… I know… but I had an inkling that their host @ICT_MrP would probably cover that, so I went for…
If you haven’t noticed, whilst I love technology and its propensity to enhance learning, for me it always has to be purposeful. I’ve written at some length about it previously but I thought a handy checklist might be, well… handy. So I made this. Please forgive the brevity of the…
I am extremely excited to have been nominated for the UK Blog Awards 2015. I have been nominated for Education blog of the year! Thank you to the people who nominated me for this. It is exceedingly humbling. I have always seen this space as a place to offer help…
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