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Stay up to date with NetSupport’s latest broadcasts and listen back to our previous podcasts on topics such as safeguarding, digital citizenship and teaching with edtech – plus, catch up on all the activity and interviews with key education experts from recent Bett shows.You can also listen to chats about all things education-related from specialists in the sector in our Big Education Debates, as well as learn about how edtech can help your school or Trust with managing its IT, complying with GDPR – and much more!

  1. ListEd Podcast - How to get students bothered about their learning - With Hywel Roberts

    JAN 13

    ListEd Podcast - How to get students bothered about their learning - With Hywel Roberts

    In this episode, you will gain five tips for helping get students immersed and ‘bothered’ about the curriculum you are delivering. Learn how to move from passive attention to invested I learning, where everyone in the classroom gets stuck in and is involved.   Tip 1: Move the children from passively engaged to invested  Tip 2: Use story  Tip 3: Find the real world when delivering the curriculum  Tip 4: Work alongside children as well as in front of them  Tip 5: Be a warm demander About our guest: Hywel has been a teacher for over thirty years. Hywel is as at home in front of hundreds of Headteachers on the conference circuit as he is when working with EAL children on the carpets of their classrooms. Hywel contributes to the national conversation around education at school and university level. He is an experienced teacher in Special, Primary and Secondary settings, nationally and internationally. He is also a well- respected author and contributes regularly to a variety of publications. Hywel contributed to BBC Bitesize acting as a content provider and script doctor during the Pandemic in 2020. Major publications include his award-winning book ‘Oops! Getting Children to Learn Accidentally’, ‘Uncharted Territories’ and, most recently, the best-selling ‘Botheredness’. He has also contributed fiction to a prison-based literacy reading programme developed by The Shannon Trust. Hywel is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Fellow of the Charted College of Teaching. Hywel part owns a commercial cask ale brewery with some pals, but that’s another story. He was recently described as ‘..a world leader in enthusiasm’.  LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/hywel-roberts-67ba032b   Bluesky: @HywelRoberts.bsky.social  X: @hywel_roberts  Instagram: @hyweleilianwyn  Facebook: Create Learn Inspire Hywel Roberts  TikTok: @BotherednessHQ

    5 min
  2. ListEd Podcast - How to build Universal Design for Learning in primary classrooms - With Hollie Benfield

    10/06/2025

    ListEd Podcast - How to build Universal Design for Learning in primary classrooms - With Hollie Benfield

    In this episode, you will gain five tips to help design learning experiences that work for all primary school students using the principles of Universal Design for Learning (UDL).   Tip 1: Teach children to use accessibility features of tablets and computers independently Tip 2: Record your teaching and your modelling Tip 3: Encourage autonomy and offer choices Tip 4: Use AI to help you plan and provide sequence activities Tip 5: Know your children  About our guest: Hollie is the Deputy Head of Knockhall Primary School and an Apple coach. She is an active member of her Trust's AI Working Party, where she contributes to the development and implementation of responsible AI practices. She worked previously as a  KS2 lead and spent many years as a KS2 teacher.  Hollie’s school has 1:1 iPads for children across the school and works closely with staff to embed iPad use meaningfully across the curriculum, ensuring use aligns with pedagogical goals and supports diverse learner needs. She has recently been supporting the use of safe and effective AI within the school’s planning to support Universal Design for Learning. She supports colleagues in using AI tools for lesson planning, resource creation, and assessment, while maintaining a focus on ethical use and the importance of teacher ownership. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hollie-benfield-194930119/

    3 min

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Stay up to date with NetSupport’s latest broadcasts and listen back to our previous podcasts on topics such as safeguarding, digital citizenship and teaching with edtech – plus, catch up on all the activity and interviews with key education experts from recent Bett shows.You can also listen to chats about all things education-related from specialists in the sector in our Big Education Debates, as well as learn about how edtech can help your school or Trust with managing its IT, complying with GDPR – and much more!