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Feb 01 2023

Why @ClickViewUK might be just the thing you’re looking for in your Primary school

By Mark Anderson Primary, Product Review, Teaching and learning No Comments

In my work supporting a variety of schools, I have had the opportunity and pleasure to see the implementation and impact of ClickView in several primary school settings. I am pleased to say that the results have been overwhelmingly positive. If you aren't aware, ClickView is a fully featured video…

Jan 16 2023

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Five #ChatGPT prompts to help Primary school teachers

By Mark Anderson AI, ChatGPT, EdTech, FiveWaysEdu No Comments

If you haven't come across #ChatGPT yet, then what rock have you been hiding under? Every social media platform, news outlet, magazine, blog, podcast and vlog is talking about it. The opportunities provided by #ChatGPT are huge. I talked about it here in this recent post: Will AI Make Us…

Dec 09 2020

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#AppventCalendar Day Nine – @ReallySchoolUK

By Mark Anderson Appvent, Curriculum, Home Learning, Learning, Online Learning, Remote Learning, Resources No Comments

Welcome to Day 9 of the 2020 Appvent Calendar! A consistent feature throughout the AppventCalendar event so far has been those tools and apps which have really helped to make a difference to communication, collaboration and teaching and learning throughout the pandemic. In the early years and primary setting one…

Mar 01 2017

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The new Periodic Table of iPad Apps for Primary aged pupils

By Mark Anderson iPad No Comments

I've always enjoyed thinking of ideas about how we can utilise technology for purposeful means in the classroom. It is often we see the simplest ideas making the biggest impact on teaching and learning. I'm still asked regularly for apps for particular subjects, asking children to use devices as sources of information…

May 13 2016

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A game-changer for makers and coders at home

By Mark Anderson Computing One Comment

I've been a big fan of the award-winning Hopscotch app for some time. It first came to light a few years ago and has been a firm favourite since that happened. Great for helping to teach code to young people in an engaging, fun and relevant way. This past week,…

Nov 26 2015

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On the topic of magic @harstholmeacad

By Mark Anderson Learning No Comments

There’s a problem I’ve noticed over the years between the curriculum at primary and that of secondary. It’s almost like as the kids get older so their sense of curiosity awe and wonder gets beaten out of them at every single step. The recent changes to the National Curriculum at…

Oct 12 2015

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Ten things to do with your class now it’s Autumn

By Mark Anderson Learning One Comment

I love Autumn. The change of the colours of trees. The drawing in of the evenings. Some people don't like leaving and returning from work in the dark; me too, but those days where you catch those lovely autumnal sunsets and sunrises with that deep red winter sun are just…

Nov 02 2014

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The 12 iPad lessons of Christmas

By Mark Anderson iPad One Comment

A very short post just to say I have had a look at Lee Parkinson's (@ICT_MrP) new book "The 12 iPad lessons of Christmas" on iBooks today. It's got some great ideas in there for lessons using iPads in a Primary setting whilst in the run up to Christmas. He…