I’ve been picking my way through Richard Millwood’s excellent paper on the history of educational computing in the UK entitled, “A short history offline” which, rather ironically went online a couple of days ago. Richard now looks after the National Archive of Educational Computing, a project started in the days of Ultralab. The archive is [...]
What do you think was most important 20th century invention applicable to education? I think the common ballpoint pen would be up there. You know the device that teachers banned me from using in school. They said it would ruin my hand-writing and was messy and blotchy. For that reason I never used a ballpoint [...]
This week I came across another teacher who questioned the value of buying any professional service (such as CPD) when their social networking apparently offered them so much for free. In that particular context, it’s worth reading mine and other readers comments on their blog post. But it did set me thinking, or expanding my [...]
The BBC have just released Tomorrow’s World into their online archive, and glancing through it this morning I came across this report on the Home Computer terminal broadcast on 20th September 1967. For £30 a week, Rex Malik has the first “Home Computer” terminal installed in his home. Like all things from the past, [...]
Back in 1990 when I took my first seconded Advisory post with a Local Authority, I was told that the idea was to make the job redundant in the two years available. By the end of that time, I had become convinced that not only was that aim naive in the extreme, but did not [...]
The return to school after the summer holiday is always an opportunity for innovation. Students feel refreshed and more receptive towards learning, while teachers meeting new faces are reinvigorated in their role to inspire and bring that learning to a new audience. Shelly feels this in his classroom and school at [...]
Last month’s announcement that the recent DCSF £5.6million tender to provide regional ICT Centres to deliver Continuing Professional Development has been won by a consortium of the Open University and e-Skills UK came perhaps as no surprise with the OU contributing its virtual learning infrastructure and e-Skills offering skills based training experience. However some wonder [...]
Back in April 2006, I blogged on the concept of using virtual learning environments should avian flu strike your school. Yesterday, Scientists at Imperial College suggested that schools might be closed in the Autumn in order to lessen the spread of swine flu. Today, we learn that Becta “officials have been liaising with the government [...]
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 [...]
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