Here's how you can enhance teaching and learning outcomes through technology.

Providing choices to different learning styles and preferences is enhanced with a mix of popular communications, scientific papers and theoretical concepts. This approach ensures that students not only understand the material but can also apply it in various contexts. Videos and animations can simplify intricate processes, making them more accessible and easier to understand for students. Using platforms like Instagram and TikTok, I can reach a wider audience and make science communication more engaging and interactive. These videos are particularly useful for long and tedious protocols that are difficult to explain only through text or verbal instructions.

Using technology in the classroom increases students' engagement and help teachers plan their lessons according to students needs and styles of learning. As educators we should recognize that when integrating technology in our lesson we are at the same time preparing our students to face the new world challenges.

I think yes to this and for children and young people with Special Educational Needs and/or Disabilities (SEND), technology offers alternative means of communication and also alternative ways for children and young people to demonstrate their amazing talents and abilities.

Interactive tools such as Kahoot enhance student engagement and participation. I use Kahoot for quizzes following presentations, allowing students to test their knowledge in a fun and competitive way. This immediate feedback helps reinforce learning and keeps students motivated. As a visual learner myself, I understand the importance of visual aids in the learning process. Technology provides the tools to create visual content that can enhance understanding and retention. I firmly believe in the principle of learning by doing. Hands-on experiences facilitated by technology, such as virtual labs and interactive simulations, allow students to engage directly with the material, promoting deeper learning.

I’m all for this! Anything that has the capability to personalise the learning experience for children and young people is well worth investing in. Children and young people have many commonalities and they also have amazing differences that make each and every one of them unique and brilliant in their own wonderful way. Tailoring learning specifically to interests, developmental stage and pace will inevitably mean the experience is entirely more engaging, enjoyable and successful.

Learning about others from different places and spaces enhances our connectedness to one another. Just as children and young people share similarities, they also share interests in 21st century issues that affect children and young people globally. The need to protect our environment being the most obvious example. Collaboration towards a shared goal through technology helps to develop positive relationships between children and young people from countries all over the world thereby creating greater global community cohesion.

One fundamental component of my teaching strategy is to use a variety of learning approaches: digested information from popular communications and scientific papers, concepts and theory and asking numerous questions. I am keen on using multimedia to demonstrate diverse and complex protocols and to further use this material for outreach through social media. It is super gratifying that students recognise themselves in these platforms and they share these samples of their work and daily activities with family and friends. If a student asks questions that pique my curiosity and deepen my understanding, or if a student gets excited about their results or some microbiology news, I think I have fulfilled my societal responsibility as a mentor.