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Teaching creativity in schools is a hot topic in education, and I talk about the use, and misuse, of this word a lot. At a recent conference one of the slides I showed participants really resonated with teachers and created some great discussion across twitter. So let’s get...

    I was really excited to be asked to participate in an interview with The Staffroom Team for the first episode of their new podcast. It’s one of the more comprehensive discussions I’ve recorded about my teaching and learning philosophy, how my website...

‘Tra-digital’, from the combination of traditional and digital, is a way of describing a mixed media approach that combines both technology and ‘hands-on’ tools and techniques. It seems to be useful term for explaining the potential cross-over, the blurry...

Great to be asked to comment for a variety of ‘Educator Insights’ for the International Society of Technology in Education. See some snippets here…

Here’s a few shots from some lessons in my Year 8 classes as we learned about the expressive qualities of light and line by using a wire sculpture, collaboration and our technology. Let’s kick it off with some images of the students using their devices to take some...

Photography is (wonderfully) more accessible than ever. When our students have access to the connected camera that is an integral part of our creative mobile devices, the lens becomes an entry point, a conduit between what is placed before it and a myriad of other creative tools....

Through my experiences in schools across a variety of contexts I’ve learned that if we don’t share really practical and productive ideas for managing these ‘housekeeping’ issues, we run the risk of building barriers, not bridges, towards truly integrated...

I am so fortunate to jump in and out of connected classrooms across the globe, and I’m happy to work with whatever tools are in place to support learning. However, I am always excited to see an Apple TV in place that allows me to be mobile and responsive, using my iPad to...