I have just read a really interesting post by Dan Barker in the Huffington Post United Kingdom edition. The post is titled “Decline and Fall: The UK’s Shocking IT Education Record”. It follows the recent Ofsted report on ICT education in schools. In the post, Barker, a professional software developer, bemoans the fact that U.K. schools [...]
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I was looking in Facebook today and my cousin Jared had posted a link to a wonderful blog post about combatting gender bullying. The post can be seen here. As I read through this post which was based on the experiences of a 1st grade teacher who had a child, Allie, in her class who [...]
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I found out the other day whilst e-reading “Five Minds For the Future” by Howard Gardner, about two types of learners, spotlight learners who roam around the place and seek information from a multitude of sources and laser learners who concentrate on one particular thing and dig deeper and deeper into it. This morning I [...]
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At long last YouTube have taken note of the concerns about unlimited access to their total content in schools. They have now come out with “YouTube For Schools”which will have vetted videos which can be accessed safely in schools without any comments or advertisements. Surely this will answer those who have used the “safety” argument [...]
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I did a YouTube search on “Children talk about using digital technology in school” and found a really interesting link that was not about children as such, or having them talk about their use of different forms of technology (which was the intention of my search) but which was valuable nonetheless. This was the link: [...]
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I retired from full-time work yesterday. I have left at a time of economic uncertainty and indeed I have been able to take early retirement due to being made redundant because of the Government’s public spending cutbacks. I should feel somewhat concerned about the future, both my own personal one and the future for the [...]
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I have watched two excellent videos today by two of the great movers in our world of education, namely, Sir Ken Robinson and John Seely Brown. I say “movers” following the section towards the end of Sir Ken’s talk where he quotes Benjamin Franklin in saying that “there are three types of people in the [...]
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I have never owned any Apple product! Now there’s a statement that should draw gasps of disbelief from you. This was not because I had any particular dislike of the Mac, the iPod, the iPhone or the iPad but because I found that they always seemed to hit the market at a price that made [...]
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As it says in the video: A Picture is worth a thousand words I have grown up and have been educated to express myself in text. I have worked at this for many years and have developed a certain facility for expressing myself in this media. More and more though I have come to realise [...]
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