Category Archives: teaching

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 →

There is some random stuff that is created on the web. Here’s a few cool ‘experiments’ that you could build an awesome lesson around. Autodraw One of my favourites (as a non-artist). Sketch on screen and the AI will bring … Continue reading →

With the recent Christchurch terror attack I have been pondering on our responsibility as educators. After having some challenging conversations as a parent with my own son about watching the gunman’s video (it popped up in his Instagram feed as … Continue reading →