Seating plans are a real help in the classroom. They help you to map out your learners around the room, help with differentiation, allow you to build in support and extension structures to your classroom and much much more. In a recent sharing session at work, a colleague of mine…
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As mentioned in my post previously here about the hashtag #MobilePGCE where I asked Tweachers to give advice to trainee teachers about why they might want to use technology, I mentioned I was running a session with trainees on that topic. I broke the session down in to four distinct…
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Now I'm hoping that with a title to the post as it is I don't end up being put on every filter list going - as educators reading this you will probably know that I am of course talking about 'Dedicated Improvement and Reflection Time'. Championed by @jackiebeere in many…
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Be happy and welcome in the new year with your learners. My timeline is full of teachers who are anxious about returning to work on Monday. There has been a flurry of planning, marking and general knot-tying of stomachs about the demands and responsibilities that may face us in the…
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Following discussions on Twitter, I combined comments, replies and posts to the question at the title of this post in to a Storify - read the responses below.
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Those of you that know me will know that I've been a massive fan of Explain Everything for a very long time now. It's widely regarded as one of the best apps for learning on iPad and quite rightly so. As a device for supporting flipped learning it is brilliant.…
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Imagine Explain Everything with a few less sharing options or annotation features and you've got Shadow Puppet. So why use it if you have EE? Well, it's just the ease, simplicity and opportunity of just quickly being able to interact with images, record your voice and then share with others.…
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The secret of teaching success isn’t mythical. It isn’t even that hard to work out. Watch any amazing teacher in their classroom and it is clear. The key to teaching success is to care about your learners and build relationships with them. For them to know that you really give…
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We don’t use technology in our lessons because we have to,. We don’t use technology because OFSTED says so. We use technology in our lessons because it helps students to maximise their learning potential, to allow creative opportunities for learning, which integrates differentiation and facilitates learning in the most meaningful…
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Following requests for my presentation, please find a run down of what I went through below. I started by talking about the power of mobile learning (mlearning) by presenting from the back of the auditorium. Something which brought a few chuckles and waves (it was almost like a real class!)…
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