One of my tasks at the moment is working with the History of Advertising Trust (HAT) on their AD:Mission project. Following a successful grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, HAT appointed a part-time Learning and Access Development Co-ordinator whose role is to develop the educational remit for the charity and promote access to their resources. [...]
Last year I asked whether BETT was where it was truly at, this year my doubts were swept away, not by the hundreds and thousands of products on show, but by the slow but sure “takeover” of teachers and educators in the back channel and fringe. Like Diagon alley all sorts of exciting things were [...]
A recent survey by the National Literacy Trust found students that blogged and maintaining profiles on Facebook and other social networking sites were more likely to enjoy writing and believe they were good at it. The online survey involved 3,001 pupils aged 9-16 from England and Scotland.
The survey reports that 79% of young [...]
You might have picked up on yesterday’s Radio 4 Today programme a short piece on how the Danish government are running a pilot in which students taking final year exams in secondary schools will not only be allowed to use laptops, but have full access to the internet. There is only one simple rule, you [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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