About Me

My name is Gareth Morgan and I am an independent educational digital technology consultant, primarily working with primary schools across Wales. I started my teaching career in 1996 before becoming an ICT curriculum improvement advisor for Newport School Improvement Services. For many years I was a NAACE ICT Mark assessor and in 2012 was an advisory member of the Welsh Government task and finish group who wrote the "Find it, make it, use it, share it: learning in digital Wales" document, which helped to shape the way forward for the use of digital technologies by schools, practitioners and learners across Wales. 

For the past 12 years, I've continued to work with schools through my own consultancy where I provide advice, support and training to primary school practitioners from all across Wales, focused around the Digital Competence Framework (DCF) and the computation element from the Science and Technology AoLE.  I deliver in-school staff twilight sessions and whole day INSET. In 2020 I created The Digital Learning Den teacher support platform which is being used by many primary schools across Wales. 

I therefore have spent nearly all my teaching career heavily involved in supporting the use of digital technologies across the curriculum. Recently I have spent much time reflecting on what has happened in the world of 'EdTech' over the last 30 years and also focusing on the future, especially with regards to the recent hype around generative AI.

I've always tried my best to be a critical user of digital technologies and question its impact, something that you may gather if you read my posts which go back to 2011.