Never mind the technology, where’s the learning?

Vital, the ICT CPD service launched at BETT 2010, began its first set of online moderated courses this week. Take-up however has apparently been disappointing. It’s early days, of course, and I believe that the service is a significant step in ICT CPD provision and needs time to become known and develop its clientele. It’s [...]

With the launch of the iPad real soon now, a number of main-stream education suppliers are gearing up to provide educational resources for the new machine. Penguin, who now hold the rights to so many of the titles that saw the the boom time of CD ROM, are just one publisher re-purposing content for the [...]

I had the privilege of facilitating on one of Becta’s Parental Engagement briefings this week for Primary schools. Despite being a long way from home, I’d volunteered to help with the Manchester briefing since I was in the area doing some work with schools. Held in the Manchester United conference facilities, I turned up early [...]