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 [...]
In my last post I predicted the demise of many UK education software companies. In this post I want to expand a little on this theme by proposing five reasons why this might happen:
1. Over-reliance on government regulation and subsidy by users and providers
At the dawn of educational computing back in the early 1980s, computer [...]
When times get tougher, lots of people ask me about being an educational ICT consultant and more critically what sort of things they need to know. Seth Godin is an excellent source of advice, and charges a lot for his marketing consultancy. He’s recently re-published his list of what every good marketer knows, so I [...]
At the recent Naace conference it was a real honour for me to introduce Steve Heppell, one of the great educational ICT thinkers. Steve has spoken at Naace conferences many times so it was difficult to find something new to say about him to this audience. So I decided to take a personal retrospective of [...]
Did you get one of those books that suggest 101 things to do before you die for Christmas? There’s a whole bunch of them - films to see, books to read, places to visit etc. etc. Josh Lowensohn has come up with a list of 101 web achievements to do before you die, most of [...]
It’s been a very busy two weeks, indeed I’ve been more ‘out’ than ‘in’ so to speak having attended a series of events and conferences, catching trains at ungodly hours and getting home late and often without a hot meal inside me. So here are five things I’ve learnt about conferences in the last two [...]
George Hotz, a 17 year old, yesterday claimed the hacking prize of the year by being the first to unlock the Apple iPhone. On his YouTube video, he shows it working with a T-Mobile sim card instead of the offical AT&T:
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Today, he put two of the iPhones he hacked on [...]
Back last month I picked up on the idea of list blogging. Rather than rabbit along in a rather in-coherent manner you produce a list of concise points on the topic. The one I particularly like is Kludge Spot’s 20 things I learned … and since imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, I decided [...]
My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81. I purchased it in November 1980, but it did not arrive until January 1981. Here are just five things I learnt from using it back then (there are of course many more):
1. You can never have enough memory. The ZX81 has 1K, and within a week I realised [...]
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