Archive

2024

• How we’re making it easier to access government forms online

2022

• Thinking through writing
• Making something ‘a thing’
• You’re learning a lot, but is it valuable?
• Meaningful objects
• Starting at Government Digital Service
• The drag of experience
• You’re so much better at comparing than any other kind of judgement
• Artificial intelligence won’t solve all our problems
• Do you really know how you use your time?
• Everything* is learnable
• Maintenance
• Losing focus, and finding it again
• On stories
• Moving on from The Raspberry Pi Foundation

2020

• Taking conferences online during the pandemic

2019

• Join our schools addressing Gender Balance in Computing
• Trying out quizzes and badges in Code Clubs
• Defining Data Literacy
• Drawing on writing for primary programming
• Ofcom finds children shifting to online video
• 3 ways to tame Google apps notifications

2018

• Who comes to Code Club?
• How children make digital projects: Research from Coolest Projects 2018
• Organising travel tips
• Discovering students’ underlying computational skills
• Digital skills: which matter for work?
• How to give feedback on documents
• Digital Making Educators: A look into the community
• Programming Pedagogies: PRIMM
• How to get feedback on documents
• Raspberry Pi Certified Educators: Embedding Picademy learning in schools
• Raspberry Pi computers in schools
• How Raspberry Pi Certified Educators do digital making with young people
• Professional Development: What the research says
• Will a computer take your job?
• Getting girls coding at CoderDojo
• Assessing Assessment for Digital Making
• Raspberry Pi Foundation Annual Review 2017

2017

• Entropy
• Raspberry Pi Certified Educators Survey 2016 published #picademy
• Computing & Gender: Lost in translation?
• What is Digital Making?
• Collaboration in digital making
• Introducing research series from the Raspberry Pi Foundation
• 12 months at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
• Learning through making
• The legacy of logo
• Annual Review for the Raspberry Pi Foundation
• Coding or Programming: Just semantics?

2016

• Digital Making – What is it?
• 6 months at Raspberry Pi
• Interview on The Pi Podcast [Audio]
• Annual Review for the Raspberry Pi Foundation
• When your work ends, what begins?
• Introducing ‘The Digitally Agile Researcher’
• Which programming language for learning?
• ‘Point & grunt’ or ‘eloquently instruct’ – Language & computers
• A blogging resolution
• Radio #EDUtalk interview on Raspberry Pi computers
• “I can do it, I’ve seen it” – On choosing your role models
• This is how I work (February 2016)
• What I’m doing at the Raspberry Pi Foundation
• Habit forming by leveraging the new
• Cardboard Robots and Raspberry Pis
• 2015: My year in blogging reviewed

2015

• Digital learning technology: Gaps in the discourse
• How do schools buy digital technology?
• Flipped Learning research published
• On leaving Nesta
• Co presenting TIDE podcast, round 2
• Education Technology or Technology Education? Can computers make an impact in schools?
• Ignore the headlines – computers in classrooms are a good idea, and here’s why
• 10 weeks of Quinlearning
• Digital technology in schools: decoding learning and moving away from the ‘islands of excellence’
• Digital Making & Le Canard Digérateur [Video]
• Tutoring, Mentoring, Coaching; a continuum
• Telling it forwards
• Anderton Tiger Radio slot on digital making & education policy
• Unlocking potential in the classroom: How digital technology can transform learning outcomes
• Quinlearning: A new weekly newsletter from me
• What place for research in primary schools? #ResearchEd Primary London
• 5 years in Primary school Design Tech
• Joining Oppi festival of learning in NYC this May
• Making it digital this week
• How are we supporting young digital makers?
• ‘The Visible Classroom’ EdTech for CPD evaluation published
• All measures are made up #28daysofwriting
• What do you stop doing? #28daysofwriting
• Failing elegantly #28daysofwriting
• Are we stuck with generic tech? #28daysofwriting
• Working in the open #28daysofwriting
• What *isn’t* the purpose of education? #28daysofwriting
• The mindset of ‘levelling up’ #28daysofwriting
• How to read a book #28daysofwriting
• The key to good writing? It could be cutting #28daysofwriting
• Sprinting #28daysofwriting
• Why your next purchase is a political choice #28daysofwriting
• Over-ambition #28daysofwriting
• When’s it ready to share? #28daysofwriting
• Plans & speaking at #bett15
• What are you worth?
• Is the next big thing in Ed Tech a business model?
• 5 mins of your feedback wanted please… Reader survey 2015
• Blogging reflections on 2014

2014

• 2015 prediction: Programming a new generation of digital makers
• FabLabs and Digital Social Innovation [Video]
• A new movement in education
• Education: What are the new stories? – Join my session at DiF
• Two types of ‘What Works’
• Upgrade: How online learning can enhance education
• The Visible Classroom update
• What are the biggest Ed Tech challenges for schools?
• Self made milestones
• Clarifying technology in schools: 3 ways
• Ed Tech research updates
• Don’t settle – Expectations and The Thinking Teacher
• The Thinking Teacher: On inspiration
• The Thinking Teacher: Learning as becoming
• The Thinking Teacher: Worse is better
• The Thinking Teacher: Minimum viable lessons
• The Thinking Teacher: Regulation – lessons from finance
• Exploring impact & evidence for learning with technology [Video]
• The Thinking Teacher: Best practice or next practice
• ‘Teachers need not fear the new Computing curriculum’
• The Thinking Teacher: Quantifying learning
• The Thinking Teacher: Technology as a mirror
• The Thinking Teacher: The futility of utility
• The Thinking Teacher: Lenses for teaching
• The Thinking Teacher: All you need is love
• The Thinking Teacher: Thinking makes it so
• The Thinking Teacher: What’s it all about?
• Building what matters
• Education Technology Action Group (#etag)
• Theory of Change in Education
• Future Spaces, future teachers and the importance of publishing
• Ed Invent – Building Ed Tech starting with the teachers #EIBrighton
• Brett Victor on honest teaching
• First Steps in Ed Tech Evidence
• The power of the ordinary, shared
• “What if we’re wrong?”
• The field of teaching [Video]
• Why don’t teachers have business cards..?
• Learning Computational Thinking
• Reflections on Oppi
• Pipelines for ed-tech ideas
• Nesta research projects, 3 months in
• Computing and coffee breaks #compcpd
• Cesar Hidalgo on the importance of tools
• Flight: teacher networks in the sharing economy
• Excited about efficiency
• Papert on Maths: Why ‘no good’ is no good
• Current Nesta projects
• The Thinking Teacher
• 2013: A year in blogging
• Most read 2013

2013

• “Never, ever, write something that’s already in the picture”
• Connoisseurs of learning
• ‘Team Teaching’ as shared experience
• Next steps
• Learning and ‘being’
• Sharing bringing purpose
• Maintaining Momentum
• Noticing Computing
• All in our head(phone)s
• Not new, but right
• Lessons from the K Foundation
• Insipid inspiration?
• The teachers’ dilemma: Professionals or technicians
• Your life’s work
• ‘Treat it like a job’: Looking back to achieve more
• ‘Celebrating’ birthdays & unintended consequences
• Coming July 9th: South West Digital Educators Conference #swdec
• Mobile & The Cloud: Questions for the future
• Regulation: Lessons from finance?
• Meeting a monkey
• Finnish schools: Not an island
• How to come out of nowhere: Avicii
• Groups in Finland
• Off to Finland…
• Primary Computing: As easy as making tea?
• Wanted: Outstanding Digital Educators from the South West
• Vision and Values [Video]
• Startup Weekend London Education 2013
• The 100 most influential education blogs
• Mobile Thinking
• Models for thinking: Memory is the residue of thought
• Live blogging highlights for 2012
• Learning highlights for 2012

2012

• Change your life (in just 12 months)!
• StartupWeekend Education London
• The fallacy of ‘future proofing’
• Learning as lies
• Questioning Coding
• Children share their learning at KidsMeet
• Knowing creativity
• TeachMeet Twist: London, 29th November
• ReconsiderEd: The discussion #lfe2012
• An ocean of badges #mozfest
• ReconsiderEd @LfE 2012 – Cast your votes!
• Making myself redundant
• Praxis: Bringing theory and practice to learning
• Design (Re)Thinking PSHE
• Teaching Twitter: The ‘Lo-Tech’ way
• ReconsiderEd: Have your say at the London Festival of Education
• Engaging with documentation through design
• We are looking in the light, where are the keys?
• (Not) Starting from experience
• Better than nothing, or better than average?
• ‘Best practice’ or ‘next practice’?
• The ‘Aha!’ moment; hiding the real learning?
• Connected: Supporting student blogging and communities of learning [Video] #ptlc12
• A Child’s Place in a Digital World: South West Digital Educators 2012
• Definition, Attribution & ‘The Field’
• Learning from games
• New Assessment: Moving towards evidence based teaching
• Habbo Hotel: Young people frankly discuss online safety
• Empowered mobile learning: iDHSB
• Malaysian schools ‘wired’ for 4G
• There is no ‘they’
• New Kinds of Smart
• Are you online?
• Learning by making: Caine’s Arcade
• Designing for ‘faffing’
• The Hive Upton: Crowd funding school development
• Webmaking with Mozilla #mozparty
• ‘Innovation in practice’: Join an ‘On Air’ Discussion #ukcpd4change
• ‘Code Skool’ with Plymouth University School of Computing
• Which first; required learning or desired learning?
• Intuitive Intelligence
• Perfection vs Context
• Join us via social media at PELeCON
• Mastering & the importance of finishing touches
• Play as investment
• Dial up internet as a model for learning
• Teaching discipline
• Creative Filtering
• Heroes
• Live blogging: From school hall to the House of Lords
• Great teaching; how does it scale?
• Models for thinking: What excites you?
• Beware child friendly language
• How do you teach a child who knows more than you?
• Being less helpful
• UTCs: Aiming for authenticity and choice
• Innovative learning: The story doesn’t start with you.
• Class blogs & cigarettes: Is free in return for ads OK?
• Heads together: collaborative brainstorming between students and children
• iPad fundraising- 100 heads are better than 30
• Structuring creativity: Startup Weekend Edu [Video]
• Technology is like History; it makes us think
• Learning in the real world [Video]
• Watching children’s interests fly with Google Sites [Video]
• How to start: Learning objectives or the objective of learning?

2011

• Learning highlights for 2011
• Why I became a teacher; the challenge
• Minimum Viable Lessons
• Questioning for confusion
• The business of experts
• ‘Write only’ media
• Pivotal Moments
• Learning from business for the business of learning #swel
• Content or spaces- The real eSafety problem?
• Across the chasm
• From Primary to H.E.
• Why online? Undergraduate tweeting
• Why online? Undergraduate blogging.
• TeachMeet Plymouth: Buzzing about behaviour
• PLODs: Teaching Possible Lines Of Development
• ‘Tweeting Teachers’: Self organised CPD
• Criticism: The value of blogging?
• Spreadsheets and pseudo problems
• Cummins’ Quadrants: Relevance and challenge
• ‘Educating’ Essex?
• Models for thinking
• Starting with why
• User experience & the ‘iPhone of learning’
• In at the deep end
• I dropped out of school, and I’d do it again.
• TEDx London: Relationships, Relevance, Polarisation #tedxlondon
• Trainees tweeting
• Throwing open the tool box
• What’s your ratio?
• On winning ‘Learning Technologist of the Year’
• Depth
• Problem finders
• Physics and Farming
• What does learning feel like?
• Packing up my classroom
• The implications of ‘interesting’
• Filling the box
• The $5 question
• Which first- social media or social constructivism?
• How can we enable meaningful independent learning?
• Taking things apart
• E Learning and Independence at #tmm11
• TeachMeet Midlands- Stories from Foundation to Higher #tmm11
• E-learning for independence
• Technology in problem solving: tools or models?
• ‘Act’- A mantra for C21 communities? #tmdebate
• How I use an iPhone (May 2011)
• Why Stories? – My story so far
• TeachMeet, meet Facebook
• “Context is all”- The Reading SAT
• Keynote at the University of Plymouth #onandup
• TeachMeet WM Languages: Lessons learnt
• Collaborative assessment with Google Docs
• Children self organising online communities
• ‘Jackson Pollock’ models for leadership
• “Poke the box”: Questioning Questioning
• TeachMeet Brum #tmbrum
• Top down ideas, to ground up development – Regional Meeting West Midlands 1
• Figure out what you want. Figure out how to get it. Get it. #purposed
• Collaborative tools breed collaborative thinking
• TeachMeet: Midlands: Inspiring practice and live blogging #tmm11
• School Radio: Is it dated?
• Ideas Gardens
• Articulating Learning 2: Extending the learning
• Articulating learning
• Making Habits & Forcing Change #tmeast
• Google Teacher Academy UK: Final Reflection (#gtauk)
• ‘The Tipping Point’ assembly
• Thoughts on Leadership, Management and Change
• Model Thinking?
• Getting Networked
• Objective Explanation
• Reflections on Learning Without Frontiers 2011 #lwf11
• #YearInReview 2010

2010

• Vital ‘TeachShare’ Presentation on Google Docs
• Engaging interest, not just attention
• Measuring up
• Tuning in to children
• Poetry with Parents
• iPhone & Dropbox as a portable visualiser
• Collapsing into the holidays
• Number fans
• Children on Learning Spaces
• Outside the box
• Generating ideas in ‘Learning Agreement Time’
• ‘Just’ watching
• Transforming Learning for NQTs presentation
• Collaborative INSET with Google Docs
• Just enough.
• Forcing change
• IWB slides: A crutch or a necessity?
• #pgcetips: Don’t put off innovation
• #pgcetips: Teaching Style
• The little things
• Collaborating across continents with Google Docs
• I never thought of myself as a writer
• Reviewing my NQT year
• Cool technology things I learned at Google Teacher Academy (#gtauk)
• Google Teacher Academy (#gtauk): Reflections
• My #gtauk presentation: Collaborating on teaching writing
• GTA approaches
• Continuing thoughts on classroom space
• How could I develop my space?
• Problems with timetabled learning
• My Google Teacher Academy Application
• Getting out of my classroom
• Let’s let students manage real world distractions
• iPad in Education Event
• PGCE to NQT: Some reflections
• Personalising writing lessons with the new Google Docs
• TeachMeet Birmingham: Primary Edition
• Documenting negotiated projects
• Digital thinking in maths
• Can we ‘unplan’ the KS2 curriculum?
• School Radio: Phase two
• I worry about the iPad
• Negotiated projects and Random Activity Generator
• ICT skills should be portable
• Sentence level starters
• Embedding 21st Century technologies presentation
• TeachMeet: ‘Real’ relationships still matter
• MA project ideas
• Home Access: Sustainability should be core.
• BETT & TeachMeet: Ideas not kit
• Scaffolding negotiated projects (part II)
• Scaffolding negotiated projects
• e-Reading: Seeing books differently

2009

• Edublog awards nomination
• Blogging in the Primary Classroom
• The drive to be social with technology
• Birmingham eSafety strategy launch
• Using twitter on a school trip
• Sentence writing with pictures
• 1:1- Using twitter to get a young class to the right resources
• School Radio: Initial efforts
• 1:1: Starting Google Docs
• No email sign ups for a whole class
• 1:1 Primary: The first few weeks
• Where’s Klaus?
• School Radio: Introduction & Equipment
• 1:1 Primary: Starting thoughts
• Some tools and tricks I swear by
• Moving forward
• Subversive tech: An IWB for £30?!
• What is collaboration?
• A visualiser on the cheap
• Is engagement enough?
• Time for reflection
• Starting my blog