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My advice for technophobic teachers

October 29, 2017 Adam Hill

Technophobia is generally defined as fear or anxiety relating to technology. It is common among teachers and often results in a reluctance to adopt new

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Seesaw updates (summer 2017)

July 16, 2017 Adam Hill

Anyone who has followed me for longer than five minutes knows how much I love Seesaw. I am a very proud Seesaw Ambassador. I truly

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Seesaw information (from a new Seesaw Ambassador)

February 19, 2017 Adam Hill

My students and I used Seesaw regularly throughout last year. You can see my previous posts here. Since then, I have taken a break from

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The potential of Google My Maps

September 22, 2016 Adam Hill

Last night, my colleague Dickie and I went to our first 21st Century Learning Teach Meet. What a fantastic event! The Teach Meets are regular

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Data handling with Pokémon Go

September 11, 2016 Adam Hill

In a previous post, I claimed that Pokémon Go was simply too popular to ignore. It has captured the attention of gamers, of all ages, across

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Google Classroom next steps

September 1, 2016 Adam Hill

On Tuesday (incidentally my 28th birthday), I co-led some differentiated PD about Google Classroom. The aim is to implement it across the whole of the

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Seesaw: from showcase to learning

August 28, 2016 Adam Hill

Seesaw is advertised as ‘The Learning Journal’, and it certainly has that potential. However, just like any educational technology, the impact on learning depends greatly on

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Pokémon Go and AR: too popular to ignore

August 7, 2016 Adam Hill

I have spent the majority of this summer in Europe and I’ve watched Pokémon Go grow rapidly in popularity, evident in every city that I have visited.

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Digital portfolios using Seesaw

July 24, 2016 Adam Hill

It is part of our school-wide action plan to transition from hard-copy portfolio files to digital portfolios. This year, some teachers have been trialling Seesaw,

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Google Forms branching database

June 26, 2016 Adam Hill

My students and I are already fairly familiar with Google Forms (to see how we use Google Forms for peer-assessments, click here). My students are

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Adopting a flipped classroom

May 3, 2016 Adam Hill

The flipped classroom is a buzz term floating around at the moment, but what does it actually mean? Here is a good explanation of it: “By

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Newsela in a nutshell

April 20, 2016 Adam Hill

Newsela is a brilliant website and app that helps you to teach reading comprehension strategies through global news articles. I wanted to unlock its potential, so

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#NoTalkWC

April 13, 2016 Adam Hill

How often do you speak to the whole class at the same time? We all wish that we had smaller class sizes. We know that

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The power of music… and Twitter

April 6, 2016 Adam Hill

Exploring a theme through music is not something that I have really done before in teaching, but it is certainly something that I will do

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Google Forms peer-assessments

March 23, 2016 Adam Hill

I am currently undertaking the Google Certified Educator course and the module about digitising assessment rubrics was one of the new ideas for me. By

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Getting started with Google Classroom

March 21, 2016 Adam Hill

“Google Classroom is a tool built specifically for teachers and students. It provides a platform for communicating with students, assigning and collecting work, and providing

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