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It takes a village to educate a child
What are the best ways parents can help teachers and that teachers can help parents? The key secret to education is building and maintaining relationships. Here I mean all relationships between...
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School Transitions – Kings and Queens reduced to Pawns
Leaders become followers: I spent last week visiting and discussing a range of schools in New Zealand from early childhood (ages 2-4) to high school. A theme arose around the expectations teachers had...
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Teaching a Room of Nerds and Noobs
What was my most challenging classroom and how did I turn it around? This story wont be new to everyone but it’s an important one all the same. A common discussion amongst teachers is differentiation...
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Can social media help manage a successful classroom?
Humans are all about relationships. This is why learning is all about relationships but that’s also why social media has both taken over the world and will have a huge impact on education and learning....
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Classroom Gaming can help all learners
How about this for an idea? Your learners can game when they want at any moment during class. I know it sounds a bit crazy, so let’s put some structure and reasoning around it. Here are some ideas...
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Why #EdTech and I are changing our brand
I have to be honest with you. For more than a year, my blogging as iPadwells on the now extinct iPad4Schools.org has focused on education and leadership whilst I’ve struggled to add a weak connection...
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Miami Device: Something to dance about!
How lucky am I? The all inspiring Felix Jacomino invited me to speak at his energy-packed learning event, Miami Device, in the beautiful setting of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Day School. The 2 day event...
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Challenged by Seductive Technology
Technology can still be so inviting to teachers, it can often damage the potential for learning. I recently trialled the app Floors by Pixelpress, planning it to be a fun and creative exercise in...
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5 QUESTIONS TO REMOVE FROM YOUR CLASSROOM
I talk about teaching and learning quite a lot. In fact, if you ask my wife, probably a little too much. Because of this, teachers in my department ask me questions about what I want them to be aiming...
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5 BIG Themes for 2016 iPad Learning
2016 has arrived and iPad pedagogy has moved a long way in 6 years. Having iPads in your classroom is no longer about which exciting apps you can all use but more about empowering your students to...
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Google Classroom in one minute
Here’s a one minute post with a one minute tutorial. I’m busy at the moment encouraging colleagues to start using Google Classroom. The reason I’m pushing it is that for the majority of teachers and...
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Why Teachers should act like Rookies not Experts
As a teacher, I found Curious Minds episode 41 with Liz Wiseman on Why Learning Beats Knowing, sparked a number of ideas that connected with my recent posts emphasising the need for self-learning...
View ArticleHow #iOS11 will help #iPad classrooms
It’s been a while since an iPad update has sparked my #EdTech senses, but new features offered by iOS11 offer built-in opportunities for key aspects of what you might call modern or student-centred...
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