Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

As I’m preparing a session for a workshop which I’m doing next week on “Social networking beyond school: understanding social networking sites used by your students“, I’m struck by the number of news stories that illustrate the controversy of using sites like Facebook and Twitter in everyday life. For example, this weekend, we have the [...]

Last weekend I was at the ECIS Administrators’ Conference, an annual event for Directors, Heads of School, Bursars and Administrators in international schools. The theme was, “Keeping Educational Excellence Through the Economic Crisis“, and there was a fair number of ICT focused sessions for these senior leaders to attend during the two and a half [...]

On Tuesday last I had the very pleasant experience of going to Scargill Junior School in order to do a short piece for Teachers’ TV News. If you’ve read my previous post, you will know this was prompted by the front page of the previous Tuesday’s Guardian that stated the Rose Review would recommend the [...]

According to the BBC, Professor Dylan William, Deputy Director of the Institute of Education will state the obvious at the Institute of Fiscal Studies Conference, “Children who are taught by the best teachers learn twice as fast as those with poor teachers”, but will also question the value of ICT equipment in schools and the [...]