Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

According to the BBC, South London’s Durand Primary is to buy a building in the home counties and create a weekly boarding experience for its inner city students. The idea is to create an all-through 3-19 Academy, with those over 13 attending as weekly boarders. Jim Davies the Headteacher is reported to have said he [...]

Monday was a pretty sleepless night, being woken throughout the early hours by a no response phone call can destroy your sense of humour, if not your confidence in technology. It started at 1am, and actually continued for 16 hours, and maybe longer, as only after that time I decided to take drastic action and [...]

I was not much good at music in school. Mind you it was not the sort of education that students and pupils get today, and although there are greater opportunities for young people to learn an instrument, many are still self-taught, or are motivated to teach themselves. In the last few years the internet has [...]

As Jim Knight, Minister for Employment  was tweeting from the House of Commons as candidates for the Speaker’s position were making their speeches, other public servants and employees were increasingly being banned from using social networking.
In Plymouth, Barry Keel, the Chief Executive of Plymouth City Council, banned democratically elected councillors from using Twitter. The email [...]

The latest money saving idea from the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is to replace state text books with digital technology. The Times Online goes further in explaining that, “Mr Schwarzenegger announced the ban on textbooks in a classroom in Sacramento” saying:
“Textbooks are outdated, in my opinion. For so many years, we’ve been trying to [...]