Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

This year you can track Santa’s journey across the world by using Google Maps or Google Earth with the help of NORAD. He will pass 24 “Santa cams” around the world, providing live video feeds of his progress, which will in turn be put onto Norad’s YouTube channel as they happen. NORAD have been tracking [...]

I’m a relatively recent convert to Twitter, but Ben Walkers‘ song “You’re No One if You’re not on Twitter” sums up the growth of social networking and the internet. The song has, as he says, ” … elbowed a few more people into my corner of the room.”
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We all know that the philosophy and concepts behind Web 2.0 are here to stay (for a little while anyway), but can educators rely on their favourite online tools being around that long? Doing a trawl through, it would seem that the ‘beta’ Web 2.0 app, is really that. Users can be left high and [...]

Cloud computing is seen as the next step for ICT, where the computer, or should I say laptop, becomes a terminal on the internet and all functional applications and your files reside on an internet server somewhere. Apart from a natural progression from locally based storage, the big shift of course is towards collaboration that [...]

In the long tradition of the geoglyph like the Nazca Lines in Peru or the Cerne Abbas giant, moblog.net has begun an interesting project to create a geoglyph that will span Britain. Their mission is to create the world’s largest work of art by using one thing we all have, a mobile phone. Britglyph relies [...]

Vicki Davis and her students are rightly annoyed that Google is effectively killing their project (or the prospect of repeating it) when Lively is switched off at the end of this month. Lively is a 3D environment rather like Second Life which Google Labs set up six or so months ago but have now decided [...]

In a not unsurprising move, Pearson the international education company announced yesterday that it had acquired Fronter, the Learning Platform company from its co-founders Roger Larsen and Bjarne Hadland. Fronter, is one of the major players in the UK School Learning Platform market having secured the London Grid for Learning ‘contract’, and is the recommended [...]

The death of Oliver Postgate has brought back so many memories for a generation who as children remember his short five minute animated stories before the evening news. Like much around us today it has engendered a good deal of nostalgia for the slower pace of story telling and simplicity of Smallfilms animation techniques. Today [...]

While the news coverage of Jim Rose’s interim report on the Primary Curriculum has inevitably emphasised the ‘loss’ of curriculum subject titles, it is a great boost to the status of both discrete and integrated ICT in the curriculum. While his main emphasis is on children being better prepared for life outside school and to [...]

I’ve just returned from the “Harnessing Technology” 24hr meet. This is where the various implementation Boards for the next phase of the Harnessing Technology strategy had been brought together to discuss synergies. I’m on the Children’s, Schools and Families Board representing Naace. The whole experience was very thought provoking of course, but of note was [...]