Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

In his latest post, Ewan takes the cudgel to Local Authorities that have banned social networking citing a call by Carol Rozwell, a Gartner vice president, at their recent symposium for corporates to loosen up on social networks in the workplace. In it he feels embarrassed that most education authorities continue to be “ignorant of [...]

Uruguay is the first significant country to provide a laptop for every pupil attending a state school. While Niue, led the way back in August 2008, Uruguay is the first country with a significant population to provide such a programme. Part of the One Laptop Per Child scheme, the laptops have cost approximately £159 each [...]

If you have not read the report published by Youthnet and launched at the House of Commons yesterday, it should be a on the top of your catch-up list. Apart from the use of the “Digital Native’ cliché, the research findings by Professor Michael Hulme not only makes an interesting read but debunks many of [...]

Miley Cyrus, the 16 year old actor who is best known to young people as Hannah Montana caused a bit of a stir last week by quitting Twitter by deleting her account. Her response came in a YouTube rap, in which she says she’d started, “living for the moments” and wanted to start “living for [...]

Vital is the new name for the ICT CPD service to be provided by the Open University and e-Skills UK under a £5.6m contract. Back in August I said they had their work cut out, not because of what they might provide, but because of the competition, free or otherwise that this market presents [...]

In an episode of “Henry’s Cat” mending his cuckoo clock takes him back in time. On his way back to the end of the 20th century he catalogues strange inventions that took place in the early decades of that century. Watching the second episode of BBC Four’s Electric Dreams last night somewhat reminded me of [...]

It rather worries me that in Graveyard Guru’s latest post he says, “I’ve copied the following from the Becta site (Leadership and Management > Vision), which I’ll then change to suit our school and the attitudes and beliefs of the staff”, as a seeming solution to the problem that the school doesn’t have a real [...]