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Anson Primary School is an award winning primary school in North West London; they offer educators in the local area the opportunity to learn how Apple technology can make a difference to teaching and learning in the classroom (as the host of the Brent Apple Regional Training Centre).
The staff and pupils at Anson Primary are a hive of creative thinkers and have demonstrated this through their use of Sandbox AR. Here Simon Pile, Headteacher at Anson, describes how they have used Sandbox, offers advice and explains the impact of its use.
Ans Sand 1 Why Sandbox?
Ans Sand 1 Why Sandbox?
'Augmented reality has always been embedded in what we do in the school ... We needed a product that was going to be able to be easily embedded in what we do with children. And enable them to get something fundamentally important out of the learning. With Sandbox what we are able to do is create experiences or have the children create experiences that are relevant to their learning.'
Simon Pile, Headteacher
Ans Sand 2 How do you use Sandbox?
Ans Sand 2 How do you use Sandbox?
'You can build some authentic experiences and a route map in to teaching elements of history. You can bring Rome and Ancient Rome in to the school hall ... and children can interact with Roman architecture' .
Simon Pile, Headteacher
Ans Sand 3 What is the impact of Sandbox?
Ans Sand 3 What is the impact of Sandbox?
'What we thought was going to be a very easy, straightforward let's make for this particular period of history use it to explore that part of our curriculum, quickly became we could immerse ourselves in to stories ... and so from a very young age, everything that we knew augmented reality could be was suddenly coming to life.
We end up with children creating content rather than being consumers of content.'
Simon Pile, Headteacher
Ans Sand 4 Examples of use
Ans Sand 4 Examples of use
'You'll often see Sandbox used straightaway and somebody will put the actual elephant in the room. That is wonderful but we want to do more than that, we want to link that in to learning somehow so it doesn't just become a gimmick.'
Simon Pile, Headteacher
Ans Sand 6 What advice would you give to teachers considering using Sandbox?
Ans Sand 6 What advice would you give to teachers considering using Sandbox?
'... the same advice we give anybody using any technology! You need time to play. You have to give your staff the chance to explore the app, discuss what's possible and see how they think it might fit into their teaching and learning.'
Simon Pile, Headteacher
PedTech and Ans Sand 7 How do you support a range of abilities on the staff?
PedTech and Ans Sand 7 How do you support a range of abilities on the staff?
'One of the things you need to recognise is that staff will all be at different starting points of that journey. Set the expectation - something everybody can achieve. Then structure your staff to support each other in such a way that the expectation will keep rising and you can keep placing new challenges in. And the way you do that is by sharing what has been happening.'
Simon Pile, Headteacher
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