Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Online safety is a developing theme with lots of educational resources becoming increasingly available, but there are few resources for teachers to enable them to understand the psychology of cyberspace. Part of the craft of the teacher though is knowing enough about how humans react to a given environment so that they can teach their [...]

I’m slightly disappointed that the FLOSSIE 09 conference has been postponed. I’d been invited to speak this year and was really looking forward to it, but particularly because I intended to use the opportunity to cristalise my thoughts on how traditional associations are challenged and need to change in today’s world. Indeed, I’d begun to [...]

Imagine your crayon drawings coming to life, as if the boxes, circles and triangles you are drawing obeyed Newton’s laws of motion. That’s exactly what this 2D physics “game” by Finnish programmer Petri Purho does.

In “story mode” the game consists of 76 individual puzzles in which the objective is the same; to guide the [...]

I was reminded of that old Polaroid camera gathering dust on a shelf when my daughter asked whether I could bring it when I next visited. Apparently, digital cameras don’t cut it when preparing for your drama studies devising class. The Polaroid camera was an icon in the pre-digital age, but some say the [...]

As far as I know, this device was not at BETT last week (but then there seems little information about it anyway), but having just turned an old Quicksilver G4 Mac into a media device attached to my LCD TV, I’m drooling at this one.
Asus seem to have produced a PC built into a keyboard. [...]

Having spent two and a half days at the BETT show I am left wondering whether it actually reflects the cutting edge of ICT in UK education anymore. I’ve attended the vast majority of BETT shows since it’s inception 25 years ago, and once again this year was apparently the biggest and therefore the best. [...]

I’m getting through Born Digital rather slowly as work kicks in this week, and have just read the chapter on privacy. In this chapter Palfrey and Gasser comment on parents, “unwittingly creating problems for their children who are born digital. … A latch-key kid who carries a cell phone with an RFID chip in it [...]

Teachers tv’s news service has been around a little while now and is supplied by ITN News, but sometimes therefore its journalistic style can grate. This news clip is one such example and became available a few days ago.
Does technology always improve teaching?
While showing some excellent snippets of innovative practice it asks all the wrong [...]

Comparison websites is a competitive business, and their television advertisements have taken an interesting twist recently. Confused.com’s latest advert concentrates on the features of their new website and has adopted ‘YouTube-like’ talking heads to provide referral. However, my favourite is comparethemarket.com’s latest campaign, based on the notion of mis-typing URLs. The advert and spoof website [...]

A two year old with her Christmas present?

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