Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Terry’s latest post on his return from NECC bemoans the fact that computing has yet to be ubiquitous, and of course he’s probably right when he says, “I don’t believe that we will have truly integrated or embedded educational technology use in the curriculum across the board until the technology is invisible.”
But I’m not too [...]

“Nobody ever lost their job for buying IBM,” went the phrase in IT departments in the 1980s. Then corporate Purchasing Managers played safe when navigated the often risky proposition of introducing new technology to their companies. Likewise, when it comes to educational ICT no-one making the purchasing decision says later they were wrong, and the [...]

I read a few blogs, and some are written by teachers. One is a semi-anonymous blog written by a high school teacher in Liverpool. Bloom’s “tells it how it is” style meets the approval of his audience by the look of the comments. His latest posting entitled, “Things To Do During INSETs When You’re Dead [...]

The Mediappro project reported its findings last month at its conference. This was a research commissioned by the European Commission across 9 European countries, Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Italy, Poland, Portugal and United Kingdom. Using a variety of institutions, the research explored how young people between the ages of 12 and 18 ‘appropriated’ [...]

On Tuesday, at the Radio Festival in Cambridge, UK, Mark Thompson, Director General, revealed the BBC’s latest planned service. Known as, MyBBCRadio, it will combine existing services such as podcasts and the BBC Radio Player:
Thompson said MyBBCRadio would use peer-to-peer
technology to provide “thousands, ultimately millions, of individual
radio services created by audiences themselves”.
If the BBC manage [...]