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Using Technology to create lesson plans

By Antony Moore
28 July 2017 08:30:00 CEST

As the Summer slips away attention starts to shift towards planning for the term ahead. Planning is important as it helps us to focus our thoughts on what to teach, the activities we’re going to use and how we’ll assess pupil progress, planning for the term helps us to map out curriculum coverage and identify resources we need so we can b...

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Can Technology benefit SLT & Admin?

By Jodie Lopez
17 July 2017 11:30:00 CEST

Technology isn't magic, but it is useful and practical!

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What are the benefits to Teachers using Edtech?

By Jodie Lopez
13 July 2017 11:25:00 CEST

Technology is all too often sold (and bought) as some sort of magic fix for any number of problems. Instead of a cost vs benefit discussion there is a lot of "This will transform education" followed by vague muttering about how, and so far no technology has lived up to this claim. Computers have not taken away all of the teaching jobs. Cl...

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What are the benefits to students using Edtech?

By Jodie Lopez
12 July 2017 08:00:00 CEST

Technology isn't magic, but it is useful and practical!

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Buying into EdTech – what to look for and questions to ask

By Jodie Lopez
11 July 2017 11:25:42 CEST

Education Technology can be a big expense if you want to roll it out across a whole school. We have looked in previous blogs at some of the benefits of that outlay and I am sure you can think of many more. There are not many schools who are not buying technology at all, but with budgets becoming tighter it is even more vital that not a pe...

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Restricted budgets and the impact on CPD Training

By Antony Moore
05 July 2017 16:46:09 CEST

Are you trying to introduce new technology into your school? Have you got new staff joining in September? Maybe you’re moving to the cloud and rolling out Office365 in the new year. What we know is that for the technology to make an impact on teaching and learning and to be embedded within school life and teachers’ practice, needs time an...

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1 to 1 device ratio’s at affordable prices

By Antony Moore
04 July 2017 13:00:00 CEST

As schools are increasingly moving to the cloud and adopting new services such as Office365 increasing access to devices is also important. The days of computer suites being the only access available for students are long gone and many schools have started to adopt tablets and small form laptops as a way of increasing mobility of their de...

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