David Yarwood

David Yarwood

Lecturer

Location Manchester

Activity

  • @SteveParkinson Yes! I teach on a unit with Rob!

  • Hello, I’m David. I’m a lecturer in the Business School at Manchester Metropolitan University.

    I hope to discover emerging trends for the use of AI in HE and hopefully be inspired to take some things away to try out myself.

    I often use generative AI tools as a starting point for lesson planning ideas. I have also explored with students using AI to help...

  • I was impressed by the secondary classroom utilising different stations, with five different group activities going on at once, lots of collaboration and co-operative learning taking place.

    I'm not sure my current classroom's layout is suitable for such activities. It will be interesting to see how the traditional computer lab evolves to cater for...

  • Hi Christie, sorry I only just saw this reply. I was very lucky really to 'fall' into good schools. The best thing you can do is do your homework, look out for accreditations such as CIS. Most top schools recruit via Search Associates, however I've secured both my jobs through TES.

  • In agreement with many comments here, the terms that students will find difficult are the 'new' ones to them that they do not use in their everyday vocabulary. This could be enforced by all teachers across all subjects using the corrects terms, such as 'browser' etc.

    The new terminology might also be less intimidating to students if they can link to prior...

  • I've just displayed them on my wall.

  • Hello, I'm an ICT/Computing teacher from Manchester, currently teaching in an international school in Bangkok.