Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

The remote South Pacific nation of Niue (pronounced “new way”) is the first country to provide a laptop for each of its children. A landmark for the OLPC project, each pupil of school age will receive a laptop, around 500 machines. The world’s smallest independent nation, the total population of the island is under [...]

Over the last couple of months we’ve been experimenting with a number of online meeting tools to provide, in the first instance, additional support sessions, and in the longer term real-time online sessions to the courses we run (apart from reducing our carbon footprint). There are a number of tools out there, WebEx being the [...]

The latest research commissioned by Becta (2007/08) is just coming out and one of the first reports published is on the use of Web 2.0 technologies by learners in Key Stages 3 and 4 (11 to 16 year olds). This is the second in a series of five commissioned reports on Web 2.0 technologies, and [...]

Seth in his latest post talks about old marketing with new tools:
Remember hand-written thank you notes?
Then they became xeroxed form letters.
And then mail-merged form letters.
And then Amazon order confirmations by email.

We tend to use new tools to do less. We try to save time and money at the same time, and end up depersonalizing [...]