Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Alan Johnson along with axing Maths coursework today, has also stipulated that all other coursework will have to be supervised in “classroom style conditions”. This is to prevent the few who cheat using the internet. This comes from concerns expressed by the media in June over copying and plagarism from the web and was [...]

According to yesterday’s news report, Bridgemary Community Sports College in Gosport, Hampshire is to be open from 7am to 10pm and offer lessons via the internet throughout the night. The Head, Cheryl Heron says she hopes that pupils who do not respond to classroom lessons will be stimulated by online learning. In September 2005, Bridgemary [...]

Back in the mid 90s when the internet was still just a possibility for students and educators alike, there were basically two schools of thought. The open approach, and the ‘walled garden’. In providing internet access to schools some advocated that open internet access should be given, with certain safeguards of course, while others saw [...]

The title of chapter nine in Thomas Friedman’s book, “The World is Flat” came home to me while driving to work on Thursday. Flush with the success of being the first UK city to implement community wide wifi access less than two weeks ago and hosting the BA Festival of Science, it was announced that [...]

I had a phone call yesterday afternoon from a Head in an British International School wanting some advice. Over the summer they had invested in creating an intranet over 4 sites - a computer plus interactive whiteboard into every classroom, four computer rooms contain approximately 80 computers and for the first time, data could be [...]

Living in Norfolk the pace of life can be slow, indeed we’re not used to fast communications over here in the East living in a county with no motorway. But Norwich has always been a bit of a technology hub, and today we beat other potential schemes to be the first UK city to have [...]