Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

According to the Telegraph, Argyll and Bute have banned teachers for using social networking sites after a teacher was “caught” using Twitter, “to grumble about pupils, colleagues and parents”. The BBC reporting of the story is less sensationalist (and I suspect more accurate) but it still raises some important questions.
Argyll and Bute block social networking [...]

Yahoo a few days ago started sticking pavement signs around London. The idea is to create a viral photography event getting the population to take photos with their mobile phones using MMS, email or tags in Flickr (MMS 07786 201 809,  email brilliantspot@yahoo.co.uk,  add it to the ‘Brilliant Spots’ group on Flickr). A pretty cool [...]

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to playThey’ve been going in and out of styleBut they’re guaranteed to raise a smile…
so I felt when I found, in an old box in my workshop at home, a copy of The Advisory Teacher’s Diary, published by MESU (Microelectronics Education Support Unit) in 1988. MESU replaced MEP in the [...]