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Internet safety: expert advice
Schools need to have access to information for their staff and students, but there is a fine line between freedom of information and the…
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Improving home-school communication with technology
Undeniably, parents are a child’s first educators; and the quality and quantity of the support they provide throughout that young…
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3 great ideas for your virtual learning environment
Many educational organisations in the UK from Primary through to HE will already have a Virtual Learning Environment (possibly referred…
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How tablet technology could transform your school
BETT 2013 Over 30,000 people will visit BETT 2013… if you’re passionate about technology for learning, then you should be one of…
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Miles Berry rounds up the best apps for educational use
For as long as computers have been used in schools, their advocates have promoted the power of digital technology to transform education,…
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10 pieces of educational hardware students and teachers love
Technology promises to deliver so much in the classroom – greater engagement, improved attainment and best of all – it can make…
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Multimedia solutions for the flipped classroom
The use of internet technology to take the lecturing out of the school buildings so that teachers can spend more time actually…
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Sound advice on purchasing educational software
Investing in ICT (or anything else, for that matter) for the education market can seem rather like the croquet game in Alice in…
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The importance of keeping technology in the classroom one step ahead…
The ‘net generation’, children who have grown up in a fully internet-enabled environment, arrive at primary school – let alone…
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How games-based learning can save teachers from marking hell
Among the million tiny and delightfully varied vanities of secondary teachers lurk a few so common as to be present in virtually all of…
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Lesson Plan: KS3 RE, Islam and prejudice
Today you will… Understand the idea of islamophobia and consider what is wrong with some examples of islamophobia; think about whether…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 history, crime and punishment
Today you will… ...Take part in activities to help you understand the ‘bloody code’ • Understand which factors influenced it •…
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Lesson Plan: KS4 MFL, conversation
Today you will… ...Develop spontaneity in speaking ...use authentic texts to expand your vocabulary Look around and it’s obvious that…