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8 good answers to 1-to-1 doom-sayers
We’ve been around the block a few times with people who think that the 1-to-1 approach is fundamentally flawed for one reason or other and that these hurdles are insurmountable. We disagree. Here are...
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Where to find the money – Part 2
In my first post in this series, I talked about possible savings a school can make to fund its 1-to-1 project. However, even if you squeeze every last drop of efficiency from your printing and...
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5 Things Your Colleagues Might Fear When Your School Introduces Tablets
Many teachers will immediately see the various advantages that mobile technologies can bring to the daily business of teaching and learning. On the one hand, they will be aware of the possible...
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5 Things Your Colleagues Will Love If Your School Introduces Tablets
This article follows a previous piece titled “5 Things Your Colleagues Might Fear When Your School Introduces Tablets”. One of the main criticisms we often level at the use of technology in schools is...
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What Apple’s DEP means for UK schools
For several years now, the gap between the intuitiveness of using an iPad and the sheer backwards hellishness of deploying large numbers of them has been curious, frustrating and counter-intuitive....
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The Forgotten Link
As part of my job I get to travel around and see various different School IT systems. Every so often I find myself in a school that either rolled out a 1-to-1 scheme or is in the process of launching...
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Going 1-to-1: What to budget for beyond iPads…
The whole process of going 1:1 as a school is a huge and sometimes daunting task. It takes years of planning, fine-tuning or rebuilding of infrastructure, hours of staff training and then, the day...
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Have you considered the risks around Data Protection and mobile tech in your...
CONTENT ADVISORY – the following post contains explicit reference to the Data Protection Act and multiple scenes featuring Risk Assessment from the outset. Some readers may find its dullness offensive....
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Should learning be ever more digital?
Anyone who expects magic to happen simply by giving children shiny slabs of aluminium and glass needs their head seeing to. Yet often enough this is precisely what happens: mobile devices are time and...
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A Brave New World?
This piece first appeared on Lucinda Gilchrist’s blog and is reproduced here with her kind permission. Lucinda is Deputy Head of English at Surbiton High School. She tweets at @LGilch and is a regular...
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