Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

This was one question Simon Armitage asked himself at one point in last night’s, Upgrade Me, the first in a series programmes in BBC Four’s “Electronic Revolution” season. If you missed it you can catch it on BBC’s iPlayer for the next seven days in the UK, or it is repeated on a number of [...]

I’ve been picking my way through Richard Millwood’s excellent paper on the history of educational computing in the UK entitled, “A short history offline” which, rather ironically went online a couple of days ago. Richard now looks after the National Archive of Educational Computing, a project started in the days of Ultralab. The archive is [...]

What do you think was most important 20th century invention applicable to education? I think the common ballpoint pen would be up there. You know the device that teachers banned me from using in school. They said it would ruin my hand-writing and was messy and blotchy. For that reason I never used a ballpoint [...]

This week I came across another teacher who questioned the value of buying any professional service (such as CPD) when their social networking apparently offered them so much for free. In that particular context, it’s worth reading mine and other readers comments on their blog post. But it did set me thinking, or expanding my [...]

The BBC have just released Tomorrow’s World into their online archive, and glancing through it this morning I came across this report on the Home Computer terminal broadcast on 20th September 1967. For £30 a week, Rex Malik has the first “Home Computer” terminal installed in his home. Like all things from the past, [...]