Ed Tech
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AI Tools for Inclusion & Multilingual Learners
Some AI tools have potential to save teachers a lot of time in supporting their learners, through making content more accessible and working across languages. Some affordances of new AI tools in the multilingual classroom can include: Access to technical… Continue reading
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We Don’t Need an “AI Policy”
Schools that maintain a focus on building a culture of academic integrity through knowing our learners, iterating and evolving will be better-adapted to the opportunities and challenges of AI in education. The ripples of AI tools have been present in… Continue reading
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This Post Was Also Written By AI
Written just after the release of ChatGPT, this features GPT-3 level uses and MidJourney. Continue reading
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This Post Was Written By AI
A pre-ChatGPT post about some coming issues related to AI in education. Includes GPT-2, early image gen, AI2041 and a Nobel prediction. Continue reading
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Personal Project Quick Comment Spreadsheet
UPDATE 2022: Thanks to Terea Marcum for updating this for the new Guide. Please click here to see her version. Thank-you! Spreadsheet to help with comment generation and moderation of MYP Personal Project. It is a long job, particularly with… Continue reading
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Reductive Rubrics, Authenticity & Opportunities for Learning
A quick post to share an animated gif, made in the new Keynote 9 update. It is a rebuild of a lower-quality animation I made years ago and use often, inspired by a cartoon I saw but cannot track down… Continue reading
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My Top #EdTech in 2018
This year I jumped the Great Firewall and landed in China, in a new life and new role as High School Learning & Technology Coach. It has been a great learning experience so far, and as a techy learning nerd,… Continue reading
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Connecting ISTE NETS & IB ATL Skills
Back in 2016-17, I worked with a group on a project to connect the IB ATL Skills to the ISTE Standards for Students and AASL Standards, to generate our own school’s Instructional Technology & Information Literacy (ITIL) Standards. CA is… Continue reading
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Using Tweetdeck to Curate a Twitter PLN
Twitter is an amazing tool for building a PLN (personal learning network), but as you follow more accounts the main stream can be too fast/distracting to follow, and dipping in at random times is inefficient. Tweetdeck is ideal for curating… Continue reading
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Bold Moves for Schools
This is a quick-and-dirty review of a book that ticks all the boxes for a curriculum nerd like me: Bold Moves for Schools, by Heidi Hayes Jacobs & Marie Alcock, from the ASCD (2017, 207 pages). It’s a practical and comprehensive, yet… Continue reading
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Webb’s DOK4 & Transfer
I recently took part in a fabulous Bold Moves Curriculum Mapping Bootcamp, by Dr. Marie Alcock at ISKL. I was there to think about next steps for curriculum planning at CA, and it was a great opportunity to pick the… Continue reading
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Google Certified Educator
Today I took the Google Certified Educator (Level 1) test for a few reasons: To check my own competence in Google Apps for Education basics. To see how long it would take, with an eye on how we might support… Continue reading
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PaperPile: Managing Research & References in GoogleDocs
As anyone involved in studying (or a job that requires looking up a lot of research) knows, managing citations and remembering sources is a challenge. This is doubly difficult when you’re balancing it with full-time work and use the same… Continue reading
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Ready, Steady, Flow: #GAFESummit Presentation
My breakout session at the recent #GAFESummit held at our school. How can we use the tech we have to do the high-impact stuff well and efficiently… so that we can use the tech less and have more fun with… Continue reading
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“This will revolutionize education.”
Note (2018): If my inbox (edumarketing fluff) or the internet (hyperbole) are anything to go by, this video is still as relevant as when Derek posted it 4 years ago. Not a lot more recent, but still memerific, here’s another… Continue reading
