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. [...]
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 [...]
Becta’s new DVD, Learning Platforms in action, provides some great showcase examples of VLEs being used in schools. I particularly like some of the clips from Buckingham Primary School (who have Moodle) and the way in which they are changing the way in which children think about how a VLE can extend their use of [...]
In Gordon Brown’s speech today at the Labour Party conference, he announced the long awaited Home Access scheme. The £300 million scheme commits to providing all low income families of school age children with home internet access, including appropriate hardware if needed, by 2011.
The basics of the initial scheme are:
broadband for all young people between [...]
It’s not often that I’m asked to come along to a school at 4.00 on a Friday afternoon, but last week I called in for a chat at Attleborough High School. Attleborough High are doing great things with their Virtual Learning Environment. In one year not only have all the students been keen as mustard [...]
Higher education is slowly but surely taking up Google Apps for Education according to a recent BBC news report. In much the same way that banks have always tried to sign up students when they are young, because most of us don’t swap, Google is signing up the next generation of graduates to its email [...]
Has your school got a VLE? Is it your starting point to a fully fledged Learning Platform? Probably … many Local Authorities are starting with this premise. No wonder really, with most framework recognised providers having a VLE at their core with additional features coming later. The Government’s target is for each child to have [...]
It is perhaps opportune that while at BETT, I received Jim Knights’ reply to my MP’s letter with regard to the issue over ‘exclusion’ of the possibility of open source software being used in schools following the Becta Learning Platform Framework tender. All of which has been covered in previous posts.
Here are some key [...]
Back in July I posted on what I called, “the first shots in the Learning Platform Wars”. At the end of last year, Becta released the list of companies that made it through the framework. These can be found here. One company however, who did not apply for the framework, has reported Becta for allegedly [...]
82 97 MPs have to date signed John Pugh’s Early Day Motion on Software in Schools which reads as follows:
“That this House congratulates the Open University and other schools, colleges and universities for utilising free and open source software to deliver cost-effective educational benefit not just for their own institutions but also the wider community; [...]
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