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Inspire Pupils To Use Computers Properly With Our FREE Comic Strip!

Getting young children engaged with learning can often be a struggle; getting them enthused about rules and regulations is even harder! We recently published a classroom poster about using computers properly. With information about making sure your screen isn’t too bright, taking regular rests and maintaining a safe distance between you and the monitor, it…

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Catch Your School At Its Best

With the beautiful weather we’ve been having, now’s a great time to arrange photography or a video of your school to use in your marketing throughout the year. Online video has never been so popular, and apparently 72 hours of video is now uploaded to YouTube alone every minute. Videos also make your website six times more searchable…

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Gamification: When To Use It

This half term, we’re looking at gamification – the application of game-based elements to learning. It’s a one of the latest trends in education technology – but how should you adopt it? There’s no use applying education technology, let alone gamification, to a lesson just for the sake of it. Applying game-based elements to learning…

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‘Unauthorised’ Apps: How To Avoid Them

We’ve spoken in the past, here on Newsanywhere, about educational apps – and how they can improve learning. Apps are big business now – and almost everything, from recipies to your favourite magazine, has been turned into an app. However, this week it was discovered that ‘unauthorised’ apps are costing parents £30million, according to this…

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