Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

New web 2.0 applications appear almost every day now, and while most have seen Google sheets, it’s the Zoho suite that those in ‘the know’ rave about. Their latest application, Zoho Notebook looks awesome. As well as integrating Zoho Writer (word processor) and Sheet (spreadsheets), you can embed text, images, video, HTML, RSS, javascript, Flash, [...]

Yet again, press reports on the latest research into the use of interactive whiteboards prefer to concentrate on emphasising negative aspects rather than giving a balanced view. Apparently:
“… academics from London University’s Institute of Education raised doubts over the long-term benefits of using the equipment.”
When if fact the report states:
“The ability of the technology to [...]

At this week’s Naace Executive Meeting (of which I am Vice Chair), it was decided to recommend to members that the name of the association be changed from Naace to The ICT Association. An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held at the forthcoming Strategic Conference at the end of February to vote on this change.
Over [...]

It is perhaps opportune that while at BETT, I received Jim Knights’ reply to my MP’s letter with regard to the issue over ‘exclusion’ of the possibility of open source software being used in schools following the Becta Learning Platform Framework tender. All of which has been covered in previous posts.
Here are some key [...]

Back in July I posted on what I called, “the first shots in the Learning Platform Wars”. At the end of last year, Becta released the list of companies that made it through the framework. These can be found here. One company however, who did not apply for the framework, has reported Becta for allegedly [...]

Following my previous post regarding being blog-tagged by Theo, as promised, here are five things you may not know about me:
1) I was often confused for the Welsh Outside Half

During the late 1970s, while at university, I was often confused for Gareth Davies the Welsh Rugby player. There were some similarities other than our names, [...]

I was feeling a bit out of it … bloggers I was reading were all taking part in the blog-tag game, and no one had tagged me yet. Self doubt was creeping in, perhaps no-one was reading this blog, or at least finding it at all interesting? But today I discovered that Theo had tagged [...]

You don’t have to go far to be confused about the status of ICT in our education system. On the one hand it is the cornerstone of the 21st century vision for Education 2.0 in the UK, on the other key initiatives that might drive change in schools are soon scorned and then lost. According [...]