Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

I don’t know whether you read Phil Beadle’s article in Tuesday’s Education Guardian entitled, “Not OK computer: Whiteboard wizards would be better off with a book”. Phil was Secondary Teacher of the Year in 2004, and was the inspirational English teacher who appeared on the “Unteachables” getting disaffected kids to recite Shakespeare to cows, and [...]

Attitudes to science and technology are certainly interesting these days. The Times recently reported that a number of schools in the UK had switched off their wi-fi network due to parental pressure over health concerns. Tim Cannell, Head of ‘a prestigious Prep School in Chichester’, told
The Times:
“We listened to the parents’ views and they were [...]

A school’s attitude to mobile phones use can range from toleration to a total ban. Indeed, every school should have a policy on the use of mobile phones on the premises, perhaps as part of their general bullying policy. Indeed there is global research on this topic.
For some, the mobile phone provides an exciting opportunity [...]

Geoff Titmuss and Danny Young will come out of their self imposed purdah at BETT 2007 in January to launch Just2Easy, an educational ‘Writely’ thrusting UK educational suppliers into the Web 2.0 world. Geoff and Danny launched the insanely successful Textease back in Acorn days and proved then you could not only re-invent word-processing for [...]