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Last night I was awarded ‘Learning Technologist of the Year‘ along with Cristina Costa. We couldn’t have been further poles apart with me being a Primary school teacher and Cristina based with the Research and Graduate college at the University of Salford yet we have one intrinsically linked goal – effective learning.

The award was a fantastic achievement to receive but this is only a little piece in the ever changing puzzle that is education. I’m not going into an in depth conversation about that, that’s what the ALT conference is all about. But as a Primary school teacher I feel that I am an essential part of this education puzzle. The steps I take in my classroom are sometimes fraught with anticipation, not knowing whether what I am going to do with my class will be enhance their learning.

If the technology doesn’t fit I won’t use it but when it does, my goodness, it works.

For the last 13 years, I have never shied away from my use of technology as part of my everyday toolkit. I have jumped off many springboards during that time and I will continue doing so, for with every jump my class and I have taken, we have found ourselves emerged in a wonderfully engaging world of learning opportunities that we would otherwise have missed.