Research suggests that difficulties in low-level transcriptional processes such as handwriting and spelling or capitalisation can affect the quality and fluency...
The New Wave Federation consists of three high-performing local authority primary schools in Hackney, Inner London. Improving outcomes through academic success ...
Technology for learners with literacy difficulties is used widely in higher education, but not yet in schools. A survey of students eligible for assistive techn...
In the last few decades, the evidence from neuroscience and cognitive psychology has enriched our understanding of how we learn (Bransford et al., 2000). School...
There has been significant talk recently about the place of, and the use of, the textbook in teaching both in primary and secondary schools, with Department for...
Using technology to promote student metacognition through ‘think alouds’
Claire Badger, Senior Teacher, Teaching and Learning, The Godolphin and Latymer School...
The project: Digitalised Dialogues Across the Curriculum (DiDiAC)
DiDiAC is an international research project that considers how a free, web-based micro-blogg...
Touch-screen tablets and educational apps are gaining popularity in classrooms worldwide, with increasing investment by schools and governments (Tamim et al., 2...
The context of 360-degree video in teacher education
Video has been used as a professional development tool for teachers for some time. However, despite the be...
It could be argued that all educators engage in some form of reflective practice when thinking about planning and assessment. What is not clear is whether teach...
The use of Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR) technology in education is nothing new; the first recorded use was a flight simulator used to train U...
Geographical information systems (GIS) are a powerful tool for the visualisation and analysis of geographical information (Fargher , 2017) – for example, combin...
The possibilities that technology offers us to improve learning are tremendously exciting. In the past few years, the question has shifted from whether technolo...
Recently we have seen a dramatic increase in the amount of digital technologies available to use within educational environments, though there is debate around ...
The high impact of effective feedback on learning is consistently emphasised in educational research (Hattie , 2009), yet providing pupils with timely, personal...
Facilitating peer-based formative assessment through online quizzes
Daniel Luxton, Teacher of Mathematics, Stanwell School, Vale of Glamorgan, UK
Picardo (Pic...
In January 2018, the Cambridgeshire Educational Trust launched an additional revision programme. We designed and built software to send personalised daily email...
In recent years, providing student feedback has become increasingly burdensome, to the point where it is now one of the biggest contributors to teacher workload...
The breakthrough in my thinking about the curriculum came when I tried to answer the question that I now think every generation should ask: ‘what are schools fo...
Curriculum is all about power. Decisions about what knowledge to teach are an exercise of power and therefore a weighty ethical responsibility. What we choose t...
