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Using Bloom’s Taxonomy AI Prompts for Lesson Design AI Blooms taxonomyEducational Technology

Using Bloom’s Taxonomy AI Prompts for Lesson Design

There are plenty of challenges in the modern classroom for a teacher: challenging pupils (Both…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston28 November 2025
AI Slide Generators: Benefits to Teachers AI slide generatorsAIEducational Technology

AI Slide Generators: Benefits to Teachers

They say change is the only constant, and in the world of educational technology, this…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston16 October 2025
Pedagogical Innovation: Harnessing Technology in the Classroom pedagogical innovation through e-learningEducational Technology

Pedagogical Innovation: Harnessing Technology in the Classroom

Pedagogical innovation. The term just rolls of the tongue, doesn't it? In today’s rapidly evolving…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston26 September 2025
Digital Skills That All Teachers Should Have Digital LiteracyEducational TechnologyGetting Started

Digital Skills That All Teachers Should Have

Hello there! With exam season last year, internal interviews and a summer of redecorating as…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston18 September 2025
Personalised Learning and Individual Approaches digital learningEducational Technology

Personalised Learning and Individual Approaches

Welcome to exam season for our post-primary teachers! You are nearly at the finishing line!…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston11 April 2025
Socio-Emotional Learning and the EdTech Tools that can Promote it Socio-Emotional LearningEducational Technology

Socio-Emotional Learning and the EdTech Tools that can Promote it

In today’s educational landscape, the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) cannot be overstated. SEL helps…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston24 February 2025
Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: How Can EdTech Help? social and emotional learningEducational Technology

Social and Emotional Learning in Schools: How Can EdTech Help?

In today's rapidly evolving educational landscape, the integration of technology has become a cornerstone of…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston30 January 2025
Using Podcasts to Enhance Learning podcastsEducational Technology

Using Podcasts to Enhance Learning

Podcasts have become an increasingly popular medium for sharing information and stories, and their potential…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston21 January 2025
Recording Lessons: 6 Reasons to Start Doing This recording lessonsEducational Technology

Recording Lessons: 6 Reasons to Start Doing This

When anyone mentions recording lessons to a teacher, there is an almost immediate recoil of…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston7 October 2024
Why We Need to Evaluate EdTech Use evaluate for costEducational Technology

Why We Need to Evaluate EdTech Use

In this post, we're going to look at the reasons why we need to evaluate…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston25 October 2023
The Power of One power of oneEducational Technology

The Power of One

I heard this statement this week, as part of this podcast in a whole school…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston21 June 2023
How to Help Students Develop Better Digital Habits digital habitsEducational Technology

How to Help Students Develop Better Digital Habits

Here at the EdTechist HQ, we are all about the educational technology. But even for…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston16 June 2023
6 Research-Backed Reasons to Prove Video Lessons Are Important Educational Technology

6 Research-Backed Reasons to Prove Video Lessons Are Important

Hello! How are you? It has been a minute or two since my last post,…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston6 June 2023
Global EdTech Awards Nomination Educational Technology

Global EdTech Awards Nomination

This is a celebratory and unplanned post! Today I have been officially shortlisted as a…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston5 June 2023
The Benefit of Technology in the Classroom benefits of technology in the classroomEducational Technology

The Benefit of Technology in the Classroom

If life teaches us anything, it's that the one constant is change. No matter how…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston25 April 2023
How to Minimise the Distraction of the Smartphone in Class smartphonesEducational Technology

How to Minimise the Distraction of the Smartphone in Class

In preparing to write about the topic of the role of the smartphone in schools,…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston20 April 2023
In 2023…What are Digital Skills? digital skillsEducational Technology

In 2023…What are Digital Skills?

Digital skills have been broadly defined by UNESCO as those needed to “use digital devices,…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston25 February 2023
ChatGPT and Education chatgptEducational Technology

ChatGPT and Education

ChatGPT is a large language model developed by OpenAI. It has been developed, using a…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston26 January 2023
Tech Recommendations for Teachers (Both New and More Experienced) tech recommendations for teachingEducational Technology

Tech Recommendations for Teachers (Both New and More Experienced)

The tech recommendations that we lookat in this post are not broad-stroke, life-changing recommendations that…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston16 January 2023
Learning Management Systems: Five Alternatives alternative LMSEducational TechnologyOnline Learning

Learning Management Systems: Five Alternatives

Google Classroom is one of the most popular (and free) learning management systems, but it…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston4 November 2022
Technology Is the Tool, Not the Teacher Educational Technology

Technology Is the Tool, Not the Teacher

I'm approaching the twenty year mark since I graduated to become a teacher in Northern…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston16 September 2022
Going Digital Is About More Than Just Devices… going digitalEducational Technology

Going Digital Is About More Than Just Devices…

By now...with the remote teaching of the pandemic very firmly in the rear view mirror…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston13 September 2022
Managing And Protecting Your Digital Identity digital identityEducational Technology

Managing And Protecting Your Digital Identity

If you are on Twitter, or have listened to the news, at some point you…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston30 June 2022
Is Technology Really the Future? is technology the future?Educational TechnologyOnline LearningPedagogy

Is Technology Really the Future?

As part of my CPD, I had the opportunity to complete the Certificate in Evidence-Informed…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston26 June 2022
Using Digital Tools in Kindergarten & Foundation Classes Educational Technology

Using Digital Tools in Kindergarten & Foundation Classes

I love the power of Twitter! I put up a post on October about 10…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston17 June 2022
Evaluating Technology evaluating technologyEducational TechnologyGetting Started

Evaluating Technology

In teaching it is a necessary part of the job now to make decisions on…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston18 May 2022
How Can EdTech Help Professional Development? Educational TechnologyOnline Learning

How Can EdTech Help Professional Development?

With so much professional learning coming out of the back of lockdown teaching, there is…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston7 April 2022
Opinion: Smartphones in Schools smartphones in classEducational Technology

Opinion: Smartphones in Schools

I read an article by Alyson Klein in Education Week  recently (published 22/03/22) entitled: "Cellphones…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston24 March 2022
The Main Website Builder Platforms For Building A Website website builder imageEducational TechnologyGetting Started

The Main Website Builder Platforms For Building A Website

Building a website can be a very rewarding and frustrating experience. On one hand you…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston15 March 2022
Microsoft Innovative Education: The Benefits Educational TechnologyOnline Learning

Microsoft Innovative Education: The Benefits

In the world of education, the tech giants are well represented. And nothing says 'grown…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston14 March 2022
Why I Don’t Like Google Classroom Google ClassroomEducational TechnologyOnline Learning

Why I Don’t Like Google Classroom

Google Classroom. I get it why it's commonly used - it came to the fore…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston8 February 2022
What is a VLE? Educational TechnologyGetting StartedOnline Learning

What is a VLE?

Overview VLE stands for Virtual Learning Environment. It is a learning platform, or an online…
Michael Johnston
Michael Johnston4 February 2022
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