Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Two recent items caught my eye this weekend.
In Scotland playing a daily computer game apparently improves children’s mathematics and concentration. Thirty children from St Columba’s primary school in Dundee, aged nine and ten, played Dr Kawashima’s More Brain Training game on a Nintendo DS console every morning before lessons for about 15 minutes. A second [...]

The first lines of the seventh book in “A Series of Unfortunate Events” read:
“No matter who you are, no matter where you live, and no matter how many people are chasing you, what you don’t read is often as important as what you do read.”
… and when it comes to ICT in education, this is [...]

You may have noticed a dirth of blog posts recently, but I’ve been so busy of late that finding time to blog my thoughts and reflections has been increasingly difficult. Time became even more precious almost a week ago when I became Chair of Naace, the professional association for educational professionals here in the UK, [...]