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May 07 2020

Tute’s You! Making #onlinelearning work

By Mark Anderson Distance Learning, EdTech, Education, Home Learning, Online Learning, Remote Learning No Comments

“Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” One of America’s ‘Founding Fathers’, Benjamin Franklin was recognised as a polymath – someone who is defined as a person of wide knowledge or learning. It is this thinking which, now we are in lockdown,…

Feb 25 2020

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Three ways to promote inclusion and student voice in the classroom

By Mark Anderson Accessibility, ALN / SEN, Education, Inclusion, Microsoft, Morals, Pedagogy first, Positivity, Tools No Comments

Inclusion can take place in lots of ways in a school setting. Technology can really help with this and in this post, I'll share three ways to help ensure children don't feel excluded in your classroom. Wheel of Names! Sometimes inclusion is just that - ensuring everyone not only feels…

Dec 10 2019

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AppVent Calendar Day Ten – @ThingLink!

By Mark Anderson Appvent, EdTech No Comments

Welcome to Day Ten of my Appvent Calendar. Congratulations today go to the fab tool 'ThingLink'. If you haven't come across ThingLink before, it's a great tool with lots of use cases for learning and teaching. ThingLink allows you to upload your photos of whatever you want and then tag…

Jan 30 2019

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The Periodic Table of iOS Apps for AR and VR 2019

By Mark Anderson AR, EdTech, Featured, Free resource, Tools, VR No Comments

One of my most popular resources in recent years has been my periodic tables. I’ve made a number of them, namely: The Periodic Table of iPad Apps (with various updates for new iOS releases) The Periodic Table of iPad STEAM Apps The Periodic Table of iPad Apps for AR and VR …

May 30 2018

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Data, information and knowing your learners

By Mark Anderson Cognitive Science, Curriculum, Data, EdTech, Education, Food for thought No Comments

Whether you like it or not data and knowing how to understand, interpret and analyse it is an important facet of the modern educator. There are lots of systems that you probably use every day that hold lots of data; you've probably had about 4235242 emails from them recently about GDPR…

May 09 2018

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Educator collaboration made this free book possible

By Mark Anderson Books, Chrome, EdTech, Education, Free resource, Learning, Literacy No Comments

A few months ago I wrote about Book Creator and how they have opened up collaboration on their online Chrome based platform for Book Creator. My immediate thoughts were (in this order): Awesome When will this come to iPad (the answer is 'soon') How can we as educators model some…

Mar 22 2018

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NEW and UPDATED Periodic table of iPad apps for Primary aged pupils for iOS 11

By Mark Anderson ADE, AR, EdTech, ICT, iPad, iPad apps, Resources, Tools No Comments

I was working this week at the JESS school in Dubai with former periodic table collaborator and good friend, Steve Bambury. We used the previous version of this table and despite it only being a year old, so much has changed in that short space of time. Now that the…

Mar 01 2018

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Collaboration feature now available in Book Creator for Chrome!

By Mark Anderson Books, Chrome, EdTech, Learning No Comments

A quick search of my site will bring up a whole bunch of articles linked to the brilliant work that can be done with Book Creator. A long-time supporter of Book Creator, it has ranked highly on my list of essential tools for learning in the classroom. It has been…

Feb 16 2018

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When were you last inspired and how do you achieve this in your classroom?

By Mark Anderson Business, Computing, Digital Leaders, EdTech, Education, Leadership, Learning, T & L, Twitter No Comments

We all need inspiration. Sometimes it's the pay packet at the end of the month which motivates us, sometimes it's job satisfaction, sometimes it's a tweet we've seen or a blog post or book we've read. Sometimes it's a colleague or a lesson of theirs that you've seen. All of…

Feb 11 2018

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Figment AR for story telling and re-living field trips in iOS

By Mark Anderson ICT, iPad, Learning, Literacy, T & L No Comments

The recent periodic table of iOS apps for AR & VR I created alongside Steve Bambury has been very popular. One of the apps that feature on the table in the 'Story Telling' section is a free app called Figment AR which is free and suitable for ages from 4+ according…