Computing

With more and more technology being poured into most schools, the question remains: what to do with it all? Can this technology influence a…

Today’s school children have no experience of what the world was like before smartphones, the internet and social media. In its report…

Although 3D printing has been around since 1984 it is still a relatively young technology. Media interest and coverage would tend to suggest…

Innovating your practice has to come from a core understanding that what you are doing will benefit those in your classroom. In terms of…

I like to think that I’m ‘savvy’ when it comes to technology. I know my way around a projector, can email with the best of ‘em and…

One of the most gamechanging technology initiatives we’ve run at Madeley Academy so far has been the capture and sharing of lessons in…

Groupcall, the education communications and solutions company of which I am co-founder, works very closely with schools throughout the UK…

Pi2Go is a programmable robot from TTS that has been designed, we are told, to “unleash the power of Raspberry Pi in your classroom”. If…

I admit it – I have given up on parents’ evening. As an assistant headteacher, I was always first in and last out of our regular events.…

Many of you will be aware of the existing Government policy on leasing, which is currently putting unnecessary financial demands on schools.…

Six years ago you couldn’t buy a tablet apart from in a pharmacy. Today, our children leave school facing a working world so removed from…

Amiracle cure… the Holy Grail… the Rosetta stone for teachers everywhere. The transformative powers of technology have been sold to…

Simon Harbridge (Stone Group): Jay, you and I recently attended the same debate on digital safeguarding, and we found a lot of common…