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What are VR Education Apps? Virtual reality (VR) continues to surge in popularity, yet the technology has been around since the 1950s and has been used worldwide to support a range of careers &#8211; from medicine, the military, sports and engineering, to training, collaboration, product design and information delivery. It is not just adventurous technologyContinue reading "Learn more about VR Education Apps"

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Michael Forshaw

As a MAT COO I hated dealing with EdTechs

As a MAT COO I hated dealing with EdTechs - The EdTech Impact Blog

EdTech Sales Academy

In 2019 I joined a Multi-Academy Trust. Being on the receiving end of many a sales & marketing machine gave me an invaluable insight into what is going wrong for many EdTechs. More importantly, it showed me what can be done to fix it.

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Want to ramp up your review collection? Here are 5 ways to invite your customers to leave reviews so that you can gather even more valuable feedback and boost your profile on EdTech impact.

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Articles

Resources

flipped classroom

guide

Classroom flipping is a student-centred approach to teaching and a form of blended learning that reverses the traditional learning process.In a traditional learning environment, the teacher stands in front of class and delivers the curriculum while the students sit and listen. 

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Science resources for primary schools include VR headsets

Science Resources For Primary Schools - The EdTech Impact Blog

science

science teachers

Online science resources provide primary schools and teachers with a wealth of high-quality digital content to support the delivery of science-based learning in their classrooms.&nbsp; These science resources aim to engage students through a mix of media, real-world context, and innovative lesson plans.&nbsp; Here are the highest rated science resources for primary schools listed onContinue reading "5 Best Science Resources For Primary Schools"

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virtual-parents-evening - The EdTech Impact Blog

parent engagement

Virtual parents evenings have been an antidote to some of the frustrations of face-to-face parents evenings and in this guide we'll show you the tools you need to run them smoothly.

Virtual Parents Evenings - A Guide & The Tools To Help You - The EdTech Impact Blog

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wellbeing - The EdTech Impact Blog

health and wellbeing

wellbeing

Here are 7 of the highest rated health and wellbeing tools and resources on EdTech Impact. These online resources provide primary schools with an excellent range of tools to help engage students, and develop their understanding around mental health, wellbeing and physical activity. 1. GoBubble GoBubble is a fantastic social media platform for kids thatContinue reading "7 Best Health &#038; Wellbeing Primary School Tools &#038; Resources"

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Behaviour Management - The EdTech Impact Blog

behaviour

Every teacher will at some point in their career face challenges when tackling behaviour management in schools. This article was written by a teacher named Elena Diaz and it offers some fantastic tips to help you to form a solid behaviour management strategy.

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adaptive learning

Last decade's baby boom has meant that classroom sizes have been increasing, and when there are 20+ students in one physical room, it can be quite a challenge to ensure you’re providing a learning experience that’s meeting the unique needs of each and every student.

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SOCIALPROOF - The EdTech Impact Blog

In 2011, £5.5m was invested into UK-based EdTechs. Fast-forward to 2020, and investment hit £209m, an astonishing 3700% growth. What was once a slow-moving sector has now grown into a booming industry, accelerated further...

Social Proof: Why It Matters In EdTech - The EdTech Impact Blog

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Data privacy and protecting student data can feel like a can of worms to educators. In this short helpful guide we will outline 7 steps to follow to ensure you are covering all bases.

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at desk building relationships with students

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In this inspiring article, Zena Zenonos-Walker explains, in her own words, her process behind building better relationships with students. She discusses her own experience during school, how she got into teaching, and the specific steps she has taken during her teaching career to building positive relationships with her students. My quest to building better relationshipsContinue reading "Building Relationships With Students &#8211; Become The Hero Your Pupils Need"

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Untitled design - The EdTech Impact Blog

The Covid-19 pandemic has unleashed tectonic shifts in the EdTech world, turbo-charging the adoption of solutions across all phases of education. As demand from schools soared, so too did investment - with an extra £6 billion going into EdTech companies in 2020.

How Reviews Help You Build Trust With Schools - The EdTech Impact Blog

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Finding the right formative assessment tool is no easy task. Where should you start looking? What questions should you be asking? And what impact should you be expecting from using formative assessment tools? This first-of-a-kind buyers’ guide will provide a route map to analyse the different formative assessment solutions available, and provide a systematic processContinue reading "Formative Assessment Tools And Software Buyers’ Guide"

Formative Assessment Tools And Software Buyers’ Guide - The EdTech Impact Blog

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article2main - The EdTech Impact Blog

collaboration

communication

creativity

critical thinking

edtech

school resources

The 4 Cs of education &#8211; Collaboration, Communication, Creativity, and Critical Thinking &#8211; are well embedded in lots of schools. The principles of each do not always have to incorporate technology, of course, but I am going to focus on that angle as I think it&#8217;s really crucial to how students approach technology use beyondContinue reading "The 4Cs of lifelong technology"

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empoweringweb - The EdTech Impact Blog

apps

feedback

literacy

With so many new technologies claiming to revolutionise learning &#8211; AI, machine learning, VR, AR, apps for everything &#8211; it can be a struggle to know what to focus on. For me, the focus has got to be on empowering students. If we could find sustainable ways of empowering students to take more interest, moreContinue reading "Empowering Students With Tech &#8211; 4 Step Guide"

Empowering Students With Tech - 4 Step Guide - The EdTech Impact Blog

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article3main - The EdTech Impact Blog

leadership

You’ve decided to buy an exciting piece of EdTech. It’s going to revolutionise your school or at least help a lot. But, how do you ensure people want to use it? Installation of the system is clearly not enough. Often, when new EdTech is introduced, people are asked to change their behaviour. Most humans aren’tContinue reading "How to increase usage of EdTech"

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main - The EdTech Impact Blog

Education is the bedrock of development in any country. Nigeria is a developing country with a known sector called the “Education Sector”. Its budgetary allocation is currently 6.7% (a standard percentage for any year), which is below average of the estimated allocation for education by&nbsp;United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization UNESCO (27%).&nbsp; Education technologyContinue reading "A look At Nigerian EdTech"

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stemmain - The EdTech Impact Blog

STEM

Close your eyes. Picture yourself in the ultimate STEM classroom. What do you see? Maybe you envision a bunch of tables with plenty of room for making and building. Or perhaps you see a row of machines dedicated to fabrication and innovation, things like 3D printers, laser cutters, and screen printers. Along another wall youContinue reading "Resources for creating a love of STEM on a budget"

Resources for creating a love of STEM on a budget - The EdTech Impact Blog

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creative learning

Hey! I am so excited to share with you a tool for collaboration, connection, creation, and curation. Are you looking for an EdTech tool that you can use to curate all your content and teacher-finds? Maybe you are looking for something to keep all your favorite websites in one place? Perhaps you want to haveContinue reading "The free resource you need right now"

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game-based learning

motivation

pedagogy

resilience

scenario based learning

Keeping learners engaged and motivated in their learning is a challenge at the best of times. We are constantly competing with social media, video games, and other forms of entertainment for our students&#8217; attention. Add to that a global pandemic that has led to students learning from home, and the competition is even greater. IfContinue reading "Using GBL to keep students motivated during COVID"

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rec - The EdTech Impact Blog

lesson recording

remote teaching

teacher resources

At the moment, recording explanations and tutorials are high on the agenda of every teacher up and down the country. Here are some offerings of programs and apps for computers and iPads that may be of use, as well as their pros and their cons in my experience. Looking for more Remote Connectivity and ManagementContinue reading "Which EdTech to use for recording lessons"

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remote_learning - The EdTech Impact Blog

distance learning

home learning

remote learning

Learner engagement is tested more in the online classroom &#8211; something which has become vastly more common with the global pandemic &#8211; than in the traditional classroom. With the latter, students can feel their enthusiasm for learning building by using ‘hands-on’ manipulatives as part of the learning process. With the former, however, the ‘hands-on’ manipulativesContinue reading "How to engage pupils via remote-learning"

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steam - The EdTech Impact Blog

STEAM

The term STEAM is used to describe Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics. Quite often at the Primary level, we do STEAM without even realising! Every Primary teacher knows the benefit of creating a curriculum with cross-curricular themes, and STEAM is no different: it is an interdisciplinary approach to learning. But how best to workContinue reading "Making STEAM a part of the Primary curriculum"

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education

When I was set the challenge around six months ago to ‘create a curriculum where the use of educational technology is part of the culture of the school’, it seemed like a daunting task. Where to begin? What needs to be included? What are we doing well and what needs to be ditched? Six monthsContinue reading "Using EdTech to shape your curriculum roadmap"

Using EdTech to shape your curriculum roadmap - The EdTech Impact Blog

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biology

chemistry

physics

When it comes to Science subjects, EdTech can provide a route for incredible insight and engagement. Gone are the days where pupils were limited to looking at diagrams of the human body &#8211; now, learners can use augmented reality to see recreations of organs working away in real-time. VR can let students look around atContinue reading "6 resources that add WOW to Science"

6 resources that add WOW to Science - The EdTech Impact Blog

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blended learning

blended resources

digital learning

hybrid learning

How do we encourage our pupils to engage, to feel heard and valued, to remain creatively curious at a time where not all provisions remain available to them, whether in the classroom or our local communities?&nbsp; What if we just stopped and actually used this time, right now, to revisit why we love the creativeContinue reading "Tools and tips for creative blended-learning"

Tools and tips for creative blended-learning - The EdTech Impact Blog

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Microsoft Teams

school CPD

school MIS

teacher CPD

Blended and online learning is now the focus of many educators during this difficult time. It’s easy to lose track of the bigger picture and the long-term benefits of using EdTech to extend the classroom (even in normal times). A rushed Microsoft Teams rollout can have adverse outcomes, such as creating more work for teachers,Continue reading "How to smash school problems with Microsoft Teams"

How to smash school problems with Microsoft Teams - The EdTech Impact Blog

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adaptive_teaching - The EdTech Impact Blog

google

google docs

teaching

Adaptive teaching is one of the most powerful things we can do in our classroom. Having a clear understanding of what our students know and can do, and pushing them to know and do just that little bit more, is what teaching is all about. When this is working well the dialogue between the teacherContinue reading "Why Google Docs is perfect for adaptive teaching"

Why Google Docs is perfect for adaptive teaching - The EdTech Impact Blog

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blended_learning - The EdTech Impact Blog

parental engagement

school community

school leader

I wrote in April about the home learning resources that we had developed as a school. This was when we were in the depths of lockdown and partial opening. We are now as of writing fully open, not knowing whether we are facing individual absence, partial closure or lockdown. There has been much talk of a ‘circuit breaker’,Continue reading "EdTech that unites the whole school community"

EdTech that unites the whole school community - The EdTech Impact Blog

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Maths - The EdTech Impact Blog

mathematics

maths

parents

As a parent of children progressing through the education system, I know that their performance is enhanced when their extended family (or whānau here in Aotearoa / New Zealand) play an active part in their learning. Saying this, we want to know that our advice is helpful, our choice of methods are complementary, our useContinue reading "Bridging the Maths gap with EdTech"

Bridging the Maths gap with EdTech - The EdTech Impact Blog

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1500x500 - The EdTech Impact Blog

Too many times teachers feel that global education means a new subject. They&#8217;ll feel that it&#8217;s an add on and something new to learn about. In fact, the best way to bring the world into a classroom is to integrate resources into lessons and everyday teaching. There are many resources out there that promote globalContinue reading "10 ways to globalise your classroom"

10 ways to globalise your classroom - The EdTech Impact Blog

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8unmiss - The EdTech Impact Blog

case study

math

In this list we've compiled 8 online Maths resources that our community of schools and teachers love. Each of the online resources in this list has been reviewed independently.

8 Great Online Maths Resources - The EdTech Impact Blog

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adaptive_learning_experience - The EdTech Impact Blog

Analysing data is changing business, healthcare, and now education. This sector has always had the potential to produce huge amounts of data, thanks to the nature of educational content and the amount of time students spend working with materials. Now, as students shift from using print to digital textbooks, adaptive learning technology works behind theContinue reading "3 ways adaptive learning technology enhances education"

3 ways adaptive learning technology enhances education - The EdTech Impact Blog

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