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Jun 05 2026

24 Ways to Embed Effective Explanations and Modelling in Your Classroom

By Mark Anderson 24 Ways, Cognitive Science, EdTech, Free resource, Pedagogy first, Questioning No Comments

We're on to week 5 already, and this one is close to my heart. Explanations and modelling are something I've spent a lot of my time on with schools and trusts over the years, and it featured heavily in mine and Olly Lewis' book The EdTech Playbook, so it was…

Jun 05 2026

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24 Ways to Embed Effective Questioning and Discussion in Your Classroom

By Mark Anderson 24 Ways, Cognitive Science, EdTech, Free resource, Pedagogy first, Questioning No Comments

This week's share is one I'd been looking forward to, as questioning is one of those things we all do hundreds of times a day, often without thinking too hard about it, and yet the research on how we do it well is fascinating. Grounded in the likes of Robin…

May 19 2026

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24 Ways to Embed Formative Assessment in Your Classroom

By Mark Anderson Cognitive Science, EdTech, Free resource, Pedagogy first, Resources, Teaching and learning No Comments

This is week two of the Pedagogy First series. If you saw last week's one on retrieval, you know the idea: take a core area of teaching and learning, ground it in research, and make it as useful as possible in one place, or at least that's what I've tried…

Mar 13 2025

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AI for Lesson Planning: A Practical Teacher’s Guide

By Mark Anderson AI, ChatGPT, Digital Strategy, Education, Free resource, Front page, Leadership No Comments

Lesson planning takes time. We all know that. Crafting high-quality, engaging, and well-structured lessons that account for student misconceptions, differentiation, and assessment is an ongoing challenge. What if we had a way to refine lesson plans before we even step into the classroom? That’s exactly what I’ve been exploring in…

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…

Jan 13 2023

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Five ways to use Flippity in the classroom

By Mark Anderson EdTech, FiveWaysEdu No Comments

Popular tool Flippity has lots of useful features to help with a wide variety of teaching and learning tasks. With such a wide range of helpful tools, it's well worth an explore. For today's #FiveWaysEdu post I'm sharing five of my favourite ways it can be used in the classroom:

Jan 11 2023

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Five ways to use @nowpressplay in the Primary classroom

By Mark Anderson EdTech, FiveWaysEdu No Comments

I'm a big fan of now>press>play and have been for some time - in fact, they've just been shortlisted as finalists at the BETT awards: https://twitter.com/nowpressplay/status/1612780393547157505?s=20&t=XKRXH29aPGCU8a0Yfk_zsg With that in mind, I thought I'd share as one of my #FiveWaysEdu posts, some ways that you can use now>press>play in the…

Dec 23 2022

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Day 23 of #Appvent22 sees @dene_gainey share @spaces_edu and how it’s impacted his learners #edtech

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech No Comments

On this, the penultimate day of #Appvent22, our guest contributor is an educator with 17 years of chalkface experience and who is also a USAF veteran. Dene E Gainey is an educator and lifelong learner from Orlando, FL with 17 years of experience in education, a BSc in Elementary Education…

Jul 09 2022

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The best four #edtech tools educators can easily use to create resources for teaching and learning

By Mark Anderson Computing, EdTech, Education, educators, Efficacy, Resources, Tools No Comments

Like it or not, making resources is part of the bread and butter of being a teacher. Sometimes it involves making an explainer video, sometimes it’s creating a presentation or a keyword challenge grid, resources to go on wall displays or templates for book reviews for your students… Resources are…

Dec 16 2021

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Today we reveal @Canva behind door number 16 on the 2021 #AppventCalendar, shared by @ReallySchoolK

By Mark Anderson Appvent No Comments

Welcome to the 16th day of the 2021 Appvent Calendar. Today's post and suggestions are from Kat Cauchi; a former teacher, Global Edtech author, Product Manager at ReallySchool and many more things besides. While you're at it, also check out #ChristmasWithKat for some fun threads! A few months ago,…