Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Sean Aiken finished college with a business degree and made a promise to himself that he would not settle into a career unless he has a passion for it. As he says about his generation:
“My generation has been described as a “Peter Pan generation”, “adultescents”, “kidults”, and a host of others to describe how we [...]

Penguin launched an interesting experiment in digital fiction this week. Six digital stories in six weeks by well known authors and inspired by classics. The first is by Charles Cumming, the best-selling thriller writer. Called The 21 Steps and inspired by John Buchan’s The 39 Steps, the story is told through Google Maps. The reader [...]

At the recent Naace conference it was a real honour for me to introduce Steve Heppell, one of the great educational ICT thinkers. Steve has spoken at Naace conferences many times so it was difficult to find something new to say about him to this audience. So I decided to take a personal retrospective of [...]

On March 1st, Chris acting as tour guide took a select group of Naace members around his International School Island in Second Life. It was very enjoyable and actually a great example of how learning might be done in a virtual 3D environment ie. the concept of a tour led by a knowledgeable guide or [...]

It’s taken a week to absorb the Naace Strategic Conference, which is not really surprising, but on the whole the general buzz was that it was one of the best for years. I must admit that, in my role as Chair, I perhaps missed too many sessions I would like to have attended, but I [...]