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The 1-to-1 team: Fleshing out a strategy from your vision
There is a great variety of digital tools that claim to support teaching and learning, some of which are more effective than others. Too often, teachers are presented with tools that portray a...
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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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Success or failure is all in the implementation… so what works?
According to BESA’s 2013 report, 57% of Primary and 75% of Secondary schools plan on implementing a one-device-per-child strategy in the next few years. In most cases that will mean tablets and, again...
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Apple TV – It was a bit naff but I like it now
The Beginning We’ve all seen the rise of the lone iPad Teacher; every school has one. You will normally find these staff tucked out of the way working in odd subjects such as Mathematics or English,...
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EdTech: the intersection of talent with opportunity
This post first appeared under the somewhat pretentious title ‘Democratising Da Vinci’ on domnorrish.com This might not seem of immediate relevance, but stick with me on this one, all will become...
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Why do teachers struggle with technological change?
The process of technology-enabled change in schools is poorly understood, probably because most of us have only ever caught fleeting glimpses of it. Chief among the many reasons for this (institutional...
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What can we learn from the failure of LA’s 1-to-1?
This Wired article caught my attention today: Amidst the ordure being heaped upon the world’s largest 1-to-1 project in recent years, there are helpful lessons to learn. One of these is ‘procure...
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Is education doomed to stand still forever?
Inspired by the Guardian’s Tech Weekly podcast (which discussed how technology, principally TripAdvisor and AirbnB, has transformed holidaying) and also by @geraldhaigh writing for Microsoft about...
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Is blended learning an inescapable reality for today’s learners?
Blended learning is generally and loosely defined as ‘learning that takes place partly aided by the use of online resources’. Under this definition, it seemed obvious to me that the learning that most...
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