I regularly share that I believe good edtech in the classroom has three purposes: it enhances learning, supports teaching, and reduces teacher workload. Another key factor in successful edtech in the classroom, which I often call my Bananarama principle, is that “it isn’t what you do, it’s the way that…
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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,…
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Back in the summer, I was involved in a number of conversations about the creation of one of my periodic table designs, this time to highlight people to follow on Twitter from the FE sector. Lots of people were interested in it as a resource and so I started to…
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With it being Friday I thought I'd fire out a quick post that I've been meaning to share for some time. Often, the best edtech for the classroom is a) something developed by a teacher, b) is super simple to use, c) free, and d) works in browser on all…
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It is true to say that one of the best things (for me) about the education profession is that it is ever changing; always developing. As we learn more about how learning takes place and seek to do better by our learners in the classroom, we seek out new ideas,…
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In keeping with @87History's popular retrieval practice challenge grids idea and linked post, I created some templates to help people. https://twitter.com/87History/status/948865159744966658 There are 3 grids per template with varying sizes: 3 x 4 grid 4 x 4 grid 5 x 4 grid I've saved them into different formats depending on what…
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I see so many teachers making the mistake of using Google Images and other image search tools to get images to use in their work. You can use search tools within the Google Image Search to ensure that you are only searching for creative commons free images by choosing the…
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