For those used to such things it might seem strange to organise a face-to-face event about Virtual Worlds, but Naace’s seminar held yesterday in London did just that. The point was to introduce those that has not necessarily plunged themselves into Second Life, or any of the other virtual worlds, with a traditional introduction in [...]
I was not much good at music in school. Mind you it was not the sort of education that students and pupils get today, and although there are greater opportunities for young people to learn an instrument, many are still self-taught, or are motivated to teach themselves. In the last few years the internet has [...]
As Jim Knight, Minister for Employment was tweeting from the House of Commons as candidates for the Speaker’s position were making their speeches, other public servants and employees were increasingly being banned from using social networking.
In Plymouth, Barry Keel, the Chief Executive of Plymouth City Council, banned democratically elected councillors from using Twitter. The email [...]
The latest money saving idea from the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger is to replace state text books with digital technology. The Times Online goes further in explaining that, “Mr Schwarzenegger announced the ban on textbooks in a classroom in Sacramento” saying:
“Textbooks are outdated, in my opinion. For so many years, we’ve been trying to [...]
According to the Telegraph, Argyll and Bute have banned teachers for using social networking sites after a teacher was “caught” using Twitter, “to grumble about pupils, colleagues and parents”. The BBC reporting of the story is less sensationalist (and I suspect more accurate) but it still raises some important questions.
Argyll and Bute block social networking [...]
Yahoo a few days ago started sticking pavement signs around London. The idea is to create a viral photography event getting the population to take photos with their mobile phones using MMS, email or tags in Flickr (MMS 07786 201 809, email brilliantspot@yahoo.co.uk, add it to the ‘Brilliant Spots’ group on Flickr). A pretty cool [...]
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 [...]
Last weekend I was at the ECIS Administrators’ Conference, an annual event for Directors, Heads of School, Bursars and Administrators in international schools. The theme was, “Keeping Educational Excellence Through the Economic Crisis“, and there was a fair number of ICT focused sessions for these senior leaders to attend during the two and a half [...]
On Tuesday last I had the very pleasant experience of going to Scargill Junior School in order to do a short piece for Teachers’ TV News. If you’ve read my previous post, you will know this was prompted by the front page of the previous Tuesday’s Guardian that stated the Rose Review would recommend the [...]
According to the BBC, Professor Dylan William, Deputy Director of the Institute of Education will state the obvious at the Institute of Fiscal Studies Conference, “Children who are taught by the best teachers learn twice as fast as those with poor teachers”, but will also question the value of ICT equipment in schools and the [...]
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