Category Archives: teaching

In his session today, Suan went over some key principles behind digital citizenship and internet safety. Google has put together an awesome resource for teachers and students and it was great to get the opportunity to dive deeper. https://teachercenter.withgoogle.com/digital_citizenship/preview Two … Continue reading →

Keynote speaker at the EdTechTeam Auckland Summit 2019 is Lisa Highfill. Best know for hyperdocs, she provided a thought provoking and inspiring start to this 2 day conference. Here are some random links and notes from her opening session. If … Continue reading →

Links to presentation resources Seven steps to writing success Sizzling Starts – start with an image and have students write an opening sentence. My attempts below: Sarah added to the screaming hurricane by switching on her hair dryer. Neville was … Continue reading →

Sometimes teachers refer to BYOD as ‘Bring Your Own Distraction’. Certainly managing device use in a classroom presents some different challenges but in my view that is not a reason to avoid leveraging the potential of each student have a … Continue reading →

Over the last 4 years I have become really interested in anaylsing data in schools. So when I heard about the Data Champions conferences hosted by the Ministry of Education in Wellington I jumped at the opportunity. I managed to … Continue reading →