ActivPanel Portfolio Guide

ActivPanel Portfolio Guide

We have one goal—to make education technology more powerful and more useful every day. By understanding exactly what you need in the classroom and tailoring the tech to make your […]

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What Are the 4 Cs of Education?

Critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication – these four essential skills, often referred to as the 4 Cs of education, have become a fundamental framework for students in academic settings […]

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ActivPanel LX guide

ActivPanel LX guide

Everyone deserves access to interactive technology. That’s why we created the ActivPanel LX, an easy-to-use, flexible, and affordable front-of-classroom display built to engage, enlighten, and excite teachers and students alike. […]

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Injecting LIFE into Belfast learning with the ActivPanel

Welcoming upwards of 1 million guests every year, The Odyssey Trust is a charity based in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In 2022, it launched W5 LIFE – Learning Innovation For Everyone, […]

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10 Top Tips for Teaching University Students

Teaching university students can be such a rewarding experience. You’ll be guiding and shaping the minds of each learner, helping them to prepare for the next stage of their life.  […]

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Classroom differentiation: Ability, readiness, and interest

As a key part of classroom differentiation, teachers should establish their pupils’ learning readiness, interest, and abilities. Scoring learner profiles in these three areas arms teachers with the best strategy […]

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How To Encourage Public Speaking in Children

Public speaking is an important skill for children to learn. It allows them to express themselves clearly and can help improve their academic performance and personal growth. Whether it’s giving […]

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Physical Education Classroom

The Best Interactive Whiteboard Games for Physical Education

Technology helps teachers enrich the curriculum and boost student engagement. Interactive whiteboards and displays, in particular, can make lessons appeal to all students, regardless of their preferred learning style.  Even […]

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Seven methods of classroom differentiation

Differentiation in the classroom allows teachers to give pupils of all capabilities, in all conditions, the best chance of learning. Let’s look at the seven methods of differentiation teachers can […]

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How to Accommodate Different Learning Styles in Higher Education

Ensuring different learning styles are catered to is crucial to the success of your students, regardless of their age.  In higher education and at university, the majority of students are […]

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How Do Interactive Whiteboards Meet Individual Learner Needs?

Over the years, the interactive whiteboard has become an integral part of classrooms. Still, its usefulness often gets overlooked, resulting in the technology not being utilised to its full capacity. […]

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How to Keep Students Engaged During a Lecture

Starting university is a big step for many students. Most will be living away from their parents for the first time and have a new city to get to grips […]

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How Can Teachers Prepare for the New School Year?

With the new school year fast approaching, it’s essential that you are ready for everything that it can throw your way. New students, lesson plans and targets for professional development […]

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The Ultimate Guide to Learning Styles in the Classroom

As a teacher, you will understand that every child is different. We all are. While this individuality can enrich lessons and subjects by encouraging debate and differences of opinion, it […]

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How to Teach Children with an Auditory Learning Style

First theorised by Neil Fleming, the VARK model identifies four learning styles that everyone fits into: visual, auditory, reading and writing, and kinesthetic.  This idea is built on the fact […]

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How to Teach Children with a Kinaesthetic Learning Style

There is no right or wrong way to process information. Everyone has a preferred way of learning, from looking at images to simply observing demonstrations. Kinaesthetic learners understand information better […]

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What should student data really be used for?

Today, personal information is constantly being collected and schools are no different. There are two types of student data commonly being harvested; performance information collected by teachers and held by […]

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Why should your school use social media?

The world is consumed by social media. There are over 2.8 billion people around the world with a Facebook account, sharing 3.3 million posts every minute. In that same minute, […]

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How to reduce the burden of teacher workloads

Teacher workload has reached critical levels. Indeed, according to the latest State of Technology in Education report, most teachers believe workload is contributing to high levels of stress in schools.  […]

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How to Teach Children with a Visual Learning Style

Learning styles are based on the theory that everyone learns in different ways. Some people learn better when they can see the information in front of them, whereas others learn […]

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student reading in the classroom - reading and writing learning style

How to Teach Children with a Reading and Writing Learning Style

While some people prefer to learn by taking in information via videos or actions, some prefer reading and writing to help information sink in. These learners are said to have […]

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Refreshing pedagogy with the ActivPanel 

Founded in 1924, Regent House is a large co-educational grammar school situated in Newtownards, Northern Ireland. For almost two decades, the school has partnered with Promethean, using interactive solutions to […]

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ActivInspire 3.0 launches with a fresh look and enhanced features

Promethean is excited to release ActivInspire 3.0, offering teachers a more robust version of the software they know and love. Highlights of ActivInspire 3.0 include enhanced performance, updated visuals, and […]

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Schoolwide ActivPanel upgrade makes cross-curricular headway

Saint Brigid’s National School in Dublin, is a Catholic co-educational primary school that champions connectivity and forward thinking. Having experienced the benefits of Promethean solutions since 2003, the school recently […]

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