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Project Based Learning with iPads
Bringing learning to life – Bringing Life to learning! To start with, I think Project-based learning is the future of education. It puts students into real situations where they have to: Act...
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The “One iPad” Classroom
If you have been allocated just one iPad for your classroom then you have very different issues to 1-to-1 classrooms as the iPad is not designed as a shared device. But don’t despair! There are apps...
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Thinking Digital Citizenship
INSPIRED! My colleague @lindarubens pointed me in the direction of a fantastic post on Digital Citizenship by Craig Badura. Craig’s ideas are simple but effective because they ask students to do a very...
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Positive Digital Citizenship
My last post focussed on the common topics that form many schools’ Digital Citizenship programmes (if they’re lucky enough to have one). It was quite popular and thanks for all the feedback but one...
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POSTER: 20C to 21C Learning
I was asked by Tanya Avrith (@edtechschools) for some graphics to illustrate the new approach to teaching young people in the 21st Century and how the source of information and how we build knowledge...
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iPad teaching is NOT about iPads
Priority no.1 ? I’ve covered technical and workflow ideas on this blog a lot but it’s time to properly summarise a teacher’s first priority when the kids have iPads. Now here is where I have an issue...
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SAMR success is NOT about Tech
Quick refresh If you aren’t aware of the S.A.M.R. model (devised by Ruben R. Puentedura – @rubenrp) then in simple form it explains the common journey teachers go through when introducing technology....
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SAMR + Design Masterclass
Happy enough… I’ve always been happy that I could visualise ideas for others and have had fantastic feedback from my readers, particularly in that area. Thanks readers! But… Back to the drawing board I...
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How PD can make real change
Writing blogs like this one and interacting with teachers on Twitter and the like can make edtech teacher types, like me, forget that it is still the case that the majority of teachers are not...
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The Power of Comics
Comic apps are an important addition to any student’s learning armoury and I know that many classrooms are already engaged with them but I wanted to: study the various uses for them in general...
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Why App Smash?
Inspired by the last #1to1iPadChat , I thought it was time to post on the world craze that is App Smashing. The term App Smash was coined by the great Greg Kulowiec (@gregkulowiec) from EdTech Teacher...
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Moving the ‘un-moveable’ teacher
Google Inspired I’ve just had the pleasure of presenting at the EdTechTeam’s Google For Education Summit and it was an excellent event. NZ Educators came away inspired and full to bursting with new...
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The Myth of Device fatigue
My wife came home the other day and started describing a new problem arising in her school, where students were claiming to be tired of using devices for everything. The students were apparently saying...
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#Edchatnz – NZ leads Education
#EdchatNZ – How one ‘lone nut’ can change education. I’ve just had the pleasure of doing two presentations at the first #EdchatNZ conference at the splendid Hobsonville Point secondary School...
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Why recommend the iPad for schools?
This blog is nearly 2 years old and I thought it was time to revisit the reason for its existence. I am still teaching 11 to 18 year-olds everyday in BYOD classrooms (not iPad only) and can claim a...
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The Connected Classrooms Challenge
EXISTING SKILLS How might we develop young people’s obsession and engagement with social media and texting into a deep desire to learn and create together? My first thought is to ask why people become...
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Safer Schools with Creative Commons
Teachers and their students are moving more and more online. Kids are blogging their learning as an excellent way to build confidence, reflect and gather feedback. Schools are showcasing the best of...
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An End to “21st Century” Learning Tools
Digital Learning Tools and Modern learning technologies Digital learning tools are seen by many people as those tools that are in some way different to other learning tools and need to be treated and...
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Digital and Collaborative Learning
A three minute video highlighting a journey from 20th to 21st Century learning. Video transcript below. An incorrect start… At the beginning of 2014, we started a new computer programming module with...
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Moving the ‘un-moveable’ teacher
Google Inspired I’ve just had the pleasure of presenting at the EdTechTeam’s Google For Education Summit and it was an excellent event. NZ Educators came away inspired and full to bursting with new...
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