Tag: Technology

  • Tackling Teacher Workload with AI

    Tackling Teacher Workload with AI

    This blog post refers to a new AI app that I am developing with James Huggins to support teacher workload with writing marking and assessment. You can access further information, and sign up for the testing group, here. When I qualified as a teacher in 2007, the use of technology…

  • Blogging and the Imagined Audience

    Blogging and the Imagined Audience

    I’ve had a great time engaging in blogging for audience and purpose with my class over the past term and a half. Not least, our communication with NASA Educator Astronaut Barbara Morgan last month. Blogging has proven itself to really bring the world into my classroom and allow the children…

  • #ngconf – A perfect tonic in these troubled times…

    I have briefly returned from digital leave to write about the fantastic Northern Grid for Learning Conference (#ngconf) which took place yesterday in Newcastle. I spoke at the conference last year but was even more excited to attend this year as a large proportion of the speakers were folk from…

  • Google Teacher Academy UK – A New Literacies Perspective

    When I first started my career in education I considered myself a technologist. I was interested in anything digital and used technology in my everyday life. I also loved teaching ICT. However as my time in the classroom and my increasing research work moved on I became more focused on…