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How to use pupils to evaluate education technology resources

September 15, 2021

What people say, and what they do, can be two different things. I have had a situation in which pupils tell me materials are “boring”, having just spent 45 minutes working intensively with those materials without a break!

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5 ways of using pupils to evaluate education technology resources

September 15, 2011

poll.jpgHere’s an idea you might like to try, if you haven’t already: use your pupils to evaluate resources. After all, they’re the ones who are going to be using them! There are five main ways of doing so, not all of which are mutually exclusive. Here they are.

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