Bio

Tom works on leadership, technology adoption and improving teacher capacity with NoTosh in schools across the UK, and inspires teacher audiences with fresh ideas for engaging young people in learning.His reputation for seeing worthwhile trends in educational technology is well founded: he was the first teacher in the world to work with multitouch tables in the classroom, pre-dating iPads by some three years in a partnership with Philips. He currently sits on the steering group for Durham University’s SynergyNet project that is researching the future path of multi-touch pedagogy.He was also a key figure in spreading the popularity of “for teachers, by teachers” unconference TeachMeet throughout England, devising the commercial partnership model of TeachMeet Takeovers at the world’s biggest education show, BETT.He also worked with Google to bring their teacher academy event to Google HQ London. It was the first time Google held the teacher training event outside of the US.