Year in Review with #MSFTEduChat

To see the effect of taking part in a TweetMeet, click here. To find out about how I feel about the opportunity to take part in the biggest TweetMeet so far, read on… I have been using Twitter fairly regularly for over a year, now, and thought I had a pretty good handle on promoting …

Returning to a Learning Environment

Holidays can be a godsend after a long year of work. Escaping the routine of coffee, breakfast, work, coffee, home, coffee, sleep can be an invigorating and sometimes necessary event. But when the holidays are complete, where do you start? Your classroom is empty; the walls are bare; you have your class list and details …

Connections around the world

I recently had the great privilege of interacting with a group of young women in a school in Nigeria. This was part of the Inspire a Child event with Flip Learn Kids, (@fliplearnkids). The event brought a wide range of speakers involved and interested in education: I had the distinct pleasure of speaking alongside Olawunmi …

Bring on 2019!!

New Year, New Possibilities! I would never have thought this time, last year, that I would be where I am today. In January, 2018, I was working away as an employee with Sumdog. We were working to extend the sales per district and I was designing the curricular documents to evidence the coverage we properly …

Connected Educator Appreciation Day, all wrapped up.

Connections, they are probably one of the strongest forces for change in a community or career: knowing someone who does something differently and has had great success with it is a strong catalyst for you to try it. Word of mouth from a friend or colleague can resonate more strongly that research alone, when referring …

When the practice is done

Have a look at this image.  It’s a pretty standard worksheet, no bells or whistles, just practice of arithmetic*. What I would like you to think about is what you do with it. Of course, you mark it as it has been marked, or something similar, and probably record the results. Maybe you don’t mark …