Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Thanks to Peter (why no personal blog anymore) for pointing me to Wordle … you could have great fun with this. As Peter says,
Enter any text and it’ll create a ‘cloud’ of your words with more prominence given to those that occur more frequently. It gives a useful view of the ‘big picture’ of a [...]

In my last post I predicted the demise of many UK education software companies. In this post I want to expand a little on this theme by proposing five reasons why this might happen:
1. Over-reliance on government regulation and subsidy by users and providers
At the dawn of educational computing back in the early 1980s, computer [...]

Bill Gates back in January 1996 wrote an article entitled “Content is King” which perhaps summarised the world of Web 1.0:
Content is where I expect much of the real money will be made on the Internet… If people are to be expected to put up with turning on a computer to read a screen, they [...]

It’s interesting reading Ian’s latest post in which he highlights NineHub where you can get a fully functioning Moodle for free in a blink of an eye. My view of the history of education has always been of subversion. Centrally imposed edicts and initiatives have often fallen on stony ground when it comes to implementation [...]

I’ve just started reading, Clay Shirky’s new book, Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing without Organizations (Allen Lane, February 28, 2008). As I’m only on chapter one at the moment, I’m not in a position to reflect on it in depth in this post, but I noticed that Professor Shirky has recently been [...]

It’s not often that I’m asked to come along to a school at 4.00 on a Friday afternoon, but last week I called in for a chat at Attleborough High School. Attleborough High are doing great things with their Virtual Learning Environment. In one year not only have all the students been keen as mustard [...]

In a recent post to the Naace Open Source Community blog, Ian Lynch asks the question, “Why is Open Source a contentious issue?” and goes on to say:
“a further irony is that the real power of Open Source is not that it saves money or is technically better, it is what we can learn [...]