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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 in education looked very different
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The title of this blog – Beyond New Horizons – takes its name from an idea that I had when I first started thinking about how I view the world, change and innovation. I have always felt the need to have an “eye on the future” ever since the first headteacher who I worked for
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I’m really excited to be able to share that I have just finished the final proof-reading and edits for my chapter “The Role of Schools in Children’s Online Safety” which is due to be published in June 2017 as part of the book “Online Risk to Children: Impact, Protection and Prevention” (Edited by Jon Brown).
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Over the past two years my blogging activities have become significantly reduced. This isn’t just on my professional blog but my blogging and writing has taken a hit in every area. Various factors have contributed to this including workload, moving house, preparing for my wedding and life in general. My activity on Twitter was also put
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A couple of weeks ago I had the immense pleasure of being able to attend the Digitally Confident Conference at The Sage in Gateshead. I also had the honour of presenting, alongside my head teacher Rachel Orr, about our journey towards a digital school. The conference was organised by the Digitally Confident/Northern Grid team under the
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Earlier in the year I was invited by Helga Holtkamp the director of the European Educational Publishers Group (EEPG) to speak at their Better Tools, Better Learning II Conference in Riga, Latvia. It’s always a huge priviledge to share the work from my classroom at different educational events and it’s great to be able to
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A great way to engage children in learning about healthy lifestyles through innovative use of digital technologies! A couple of months ago I came across The Tesco Eat Happy Project which has been set up to help educate young people in having healthy lifestyles. The project aligned well with my school’s Growing Greener creative learning programme
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Today I had the privilege of sharing some of the work of my pupils and projects at the Captia Managing the Safe Use of Social Media and Online Gaming Conference in Manchester. It was an interdisciplinary and multi-agency conference so it was great to be able to engage in discussion and debate with delegates from
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The way that meaningful learning contexts and extended projects can be embedded in the primary classroom has always been a research and pedagogical interest of mine. I have developed many projects during my time in the classroom including the Brer Rabbit Critical Literacy project I ran in collaboration with The Wren’s Nest museum in Atlanta, USA.
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With the change of command ceremony on Saturday, our time on the ISS [International Space Station] has really come to an end and our focus is on descent. Last time, I landed in the summer in the desert of California in a space shuttle. This time, it will be winter on the steppes of Kazakhstan
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