Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Open culture, has just published 10 unexpected uses for an iPod (some of which are perhaps not that unexpected, such as learning a foreign language), but there are some interesting ones in the list, including calculating the right tip in a restaurant, and the most recent controversy in schools - cheating in exams. In the [...]

Peter Ford in his latest post Raffa on YouTube laments the fact that linkbacks to YouTube can’t be disabled in some way to prevent children seeing inappropriate comments on a video. I tend to agree, and it illustrates the dilemma of educators wanting to use rich content on sites such as YouTube and take regard [...]

What an excellent and stimulating two day series of workshops in Amsterdam this week working with International school educators. This was the first two day event that our company, Advisory Matters, had organised in Europe, and it recruited well. Amsterdam is such an easy place to get to from almost anywhere in the world, and [...]

Back in November, I blogged on the concerns raised by some teachers as to the possible health dangers of wi-fi networks in schools. The cause has been taken up by the Professional Association of Teachers and apparently Philip Parkin, the union’s General Secretary is to write to the Secretary of State asking for a full [...]

The repetitive ‘light bulb‘ joke works because it uses a simple task, changing a light bulb, and applying a stereotypical belief about that group of people. Attitudinal change is a little more difficult and over the years there has been a good deal of research done on the factors affecting teachers’ adoption of technology. [...]

It was the London Book Fair this week, and one of the seminars was entitled, “Digitise or Die? What is the future of the Author“. The seminar synopsis states:
“New technology is finally outstripping the revolution caused by the printing press. What is the future of the book? How do publishers take advantage of the new [...]