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4 things to think about when designing a staff Training Needs Analysis with...
As almost every second post on this site hammers home, the difference between successful and unsuccessful mobile learning initiatives in schools is almost always the extent to which staff have been...
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Have you considered the risks around Data Protection and mobile tech in your...
CONTENT ADVISORY – the following post contains explicit reference to the Data Protection Act and multiple scenes featuring Risk Assessment from the outset. Some readers may find its dullness offensive....
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Educate 1-to-1 goes to the Sunday Times Festival of Education
We are very excited to announce that three contributors to Educate 1-to-1 have been invited to speak at the Sunday Times Festival of Education this year, which takes place at Wellington College on 18th...
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What does the new Ofsted framework say about the role of technology?
Beyond the expected references to safeguarding and schools’ web sites, the answer is ‘very little’. There are some who will decry this as a sign of how out-of-touch and text-book obsessed the...
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Top one-to-one educators to follow
My youngest son is about to finish his Reception year at school (Kindergarten). This makes him six months older than the iPad, the device that arguably made one-to-one implementations both possible and...
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Implementing 1-to-1 technology: Just 12 of the mistakes I’ve made (Part 1)
Yesterday I gave a presentation at the Digital Education Show about the things not to do if trying to implement 1-to-1 with any measure of success or depth. The first video below is an intro to the...
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Might ‘Bring Your Own Device’ as an alternative to 1:1 be closer than you think?
In his post at the end of last year, Adam did a good job of eviscerating BYOD as a sensible strategy for schools who are serious about leveraging technology for effective learning. However, I don’t...
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Three teaching leaders on the ‘why’ and the ‘how’ of 1-to-1
Tablet computers deployed in a 1-to-1 model (one device per child) is an increasingly popular strategy for UK schools. We asked three leading educators what it’s like at their schools and how they’re...
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Dodging the common mistakes in a 1:1 school
A guest post from Rachel Jones, author of ‘Don’t Change the Lightbulbs’ and the forthcoming ‘Teacher Geek’. 1-to-1 schools are becoming more commonplace in both the state and independent sectors....
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Is screen time something we should really be afraid of?
Every now and then you read a piece that makes the hang-on-a-minute klaxon go off loudly. This piece in The Conversation titled Devices in schools and at home means too much screen time for kids was...
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Is technology invisible?
Interview with Jose Picardo from Learn 4 Life on Vimeo. I was fortunate to be able to attend the recent Research Ed Tech conference at the London Connected Learning Centre, where I presented a session...
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Learning with mobile devices
In the latest edition of Schools Week, published today, I noticed with great interest a piece titled “Have tablets, will learn independently”. But my initial excitement about finally reading a rigorous...
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