Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Michael Wesch, the cultural anthropologist whose viral video. A Vision of Students Today has become the party piece for educational technology presenters all over the world, and the education blogosphere, has followed up his video with an interesting blog entry on the Britannia site. In it he says, as its popularity grew, he became increasingly [...]

Becta’s new DVD, Learning Platforms in action, provides some great showcase examples of VLEs being used in schools. I particularly like some of the clips from Buckingham Primary School (who have Moodle) and the way in which they are changing the way in which children think about how a VLE can extend their use of [...]

Back almost two decades ago the first data projectors were huge and very expensive. The preserve of university halls and corporate board rooms. When colour came along, these CRT monsters sported three lenses, one for each colour and were not designed to be portable at all. Barco (Belgium American Radio Corporation) were the leaders in [...]

Crime stories involving virtual worlds continue to bring the virtual and real worlds closer together. In Japan a woman was arrested for allegedly killing her virtual husband in the online game Maple Story. The teacher is on remand facing charges of illegally accessing a computer and manipulating data. If convicted, she faces up to [...]

David Puttnam in the closing keynote of the Handheld Learning Conference last week made an impassioned plea for education to engage learners rather than become more dis-engaged from the ways and forms in which young people learn. He drew on the fact that pupil dis-engagement meant educational disadvantage and an increasing “emotional truancy”, in [...]

All this week I’m working in Bulgaria with a group of local headteachers on their own version of the Self Review Framework. Yesterday we spent the day looking at how ICT can be used to bring about school improvement and how different schools in the UK have used the Becta Self Review Framework to set [...]