Oliver Quinlan

Oliver Quinlan is an educator, writer^[1] and is a senior research manager for Raspberry Pi Foundation(charity). His first book 'The Thinking Teacher' was published in 2014.

Oliver gained a BA (Hons) in History at the University of Sheffield, and completed a PGCE in Primary Education at the University of Warwick^[2]'. He previously taught at Robin Hood School in Birmingham, UK, before becoming a lecturer in Primary Education at Plymouth University.^[3] Here he led the ICT and Digital Literacy pathways for the BEd in Primary Education, as well as developing courses for Primary Computing.

He maintains a blog 'Oliver Quinlan: Learning, Teaching, Technology', in which he writes about learning technology and the pedagogy of Primary teaching. His first book 'The Thinking Teacher' was published in January 2014 by Crown House Publishing.^[4]

Oliver is a Google Certified Teacher, Google Apps for Education Certified Trainer, and presented at the first international Google Teacher Academy in London in 2010.^[5]

In September 2011 Oliver was awarded joint first prize in the Association of Learning Technologist's annual 'Learning Technologist of the Year award.^[6]

During his University studies Oliver was joint station manager of student radio station 'Sure Radio' (Now Forge radio), and was instrumental in its move to full-time broadcasting and amalgamation with the other student media organisations at Sheffield Union.^[7] He was also nominated for a BBC student radio award for his dance and electronic music programme.

Books

The Thinking Teacher (Crown House Publishing) (2014)^[8]

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