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2013: The Year Education Changes Forever?
It’s always quite good fun, a little optimistic and potentially depressing to get to the end of the year and start making resolutions for, and predications about, the year ahead. As 2012 comes to a...
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In search of innovation in our schools
Innovation is the single most important quality needed in a staff common room. It’s the thing students don’t know that they want in their teachers, but the thing they value the most when they reflect...
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Choosing the Right Mobile Learning Device
Last week, even by my standards, was an EdTech overload. I spent a day at BETT 2013 and followed this up with a visit to The Brewery in London for the Apple Education Leaders Summit. Aside from the...
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5 Reasons to use Apple TV in the classroom
This article has also been published on the fantastic Edudemic website. Apple TV has been around for a while now, but it is not as famous as the devices and machines that the company have become...
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The Evernote Experiment: Part 1
From 8th January – 22nd March I chose one class, my First Year class (aged11-12) to give up using exercise books, reading books and textbooks. Instead, they would use only digital mediums that were...
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The Reality of the Classroom of the Future
In the UK, private schools often use ‘small class sizes’ at 6th form (16-18years old) as a selling point to entice parents to choose their school over another. I regularly have the opportunity of...
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What is the point of Educational Technology?
I spend a huge amount of my time reading about the top 5 apps for teachers, the best software for collaborative writing, the best web tool for this, that or the other, how to do something that I’ve...
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The 5 Apps EdTech needs now
Having been teaching with a tablet in my classroom for nearly a year it has become evident that the market for Education apps still isn’t quite right. I think this is most evident in the fact that the...
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The 5 Best Devices for Mobile Learning
This post has been written for Cageless Thinking by Bryan Baker. Bryan works with LeanForward, a mobile learning company. There are many mobile devices out there today that allow users to surf the...
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Our students our connected…so why disconnect them!
Please beware, I will mention the iPad in a positive way during this article. Cynics and the ill-informed may look away now. I find it very frustrating reading about all the great work that is going...
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Why we must not fear the rise of the Robot Teacher
Robot teachers seem inevitable. Technology is developing at such a pace that teachers are entirely overwhelmed by what is available to them in the classroom. As a classroom teacher who tries very hard...
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Why Technology Integration Fails in the Classroom
Over the last year I have lost count of the number of times I have heard someone say to me that their school, or a school they know has purchased X number of (usually, but not exclusively) iPads but...
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Successful 1:1 integration – A How To Guide…
Easier as it would be to pretend otherwise, the truth is that integrating mobile technology into a school is not a ‘one size fits all’ sort of thing. That said, there are some basic principles which I...
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iPad vs Computer – typing test
There are many criticisms and barriers put up when one discusses the implementation of mobile devices in schools. These range from the philosophical to the practical and one that comes up often is...
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Do teachers need iPad training?
We have come to a point in the education technology journey where it seems rather dull to still be asking if the iPad is the right option for the classroom. The answer, in case you’ve missed the last...
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Originally posted on Educate1to1Firstly, as I have said a number of times over the years, I do not believe that there […]
View ArticleEd + Tech = Innovation?
The use of technology in education seems to remain an area of contention and frustration no matter which side of […]
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