Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

The United Villages project is about providing two billion people living in rural areas of the majority world with an email address, a phone number, and web access, but the likelihood of sufficent infrastructure to reach remote parts of India, Cambodia and other countries is a long way off. While in the minority [...]

At the ECIS IT Conference last weekend, Barbara Stefanics from the International School of Vienna gave a keynote on “Teaching in the digital world”. In it she remarked that she thought Sony were missing a trick by not promoting the PSP as an educational tool, certainly her students we using it as such.
As with most [...]

The World Economic Forum have been publishing The Global Information Technology Report since 2001. It has become a unique benchmark tool to determine national ICT strengths and weaknesses. The United Kingdom has been creeping up the ‘rankings’ - 2004/05 - 12th, 2005/06 - 10th, and this year, 9th.
While the US has slipped back from [...]

I’ve just attended an interesting session by Dr Robert McLaughlin of the National Institute for Community Innovations. Bob is Executive Director of their Digital Equity Service Center. Bob’s most recent research project has been working with 30 schools to discover how to ‘engage non-technology-savvy teachers’ in planning and integration.
The result of this research shows that [...]

I’ve been attending the ECIS IT Conference since the early 90s, and have some great friends among this community. At that first conference the internet and the World Wide Web had not been born, or at least as far as international educators teaching in the 4 to 18 arena. Many of those that I met [...]

During World War II, strawberry jam was mostly made of carrot, so my mother tells me. Carrots provided the right sort of texture she used to say and of course the pectin to solidify the mixture. I have no idea whether this was true, but reducing the fruit content and replacing it with something that [...]

Open source is the latest arena chosen by the Conservative Party to try and score political points against the Government. George Osborne, Shadow Chancellor, in a speech at the Royal Society of Arts today announced their aim to make Britain the “open source leader in Europe”.
“What it is about is better and more effective government. [...]

Being Vice Chair of Naace means that I inevitably have a bias towards this conference, and therefore I might leave it for other bloggers to reflect on the content and value of the sessions. So this post does not intend to do that. Needless to say having responsibility for the conference blog and other web [...]