The world’s first (and last?) national education intranet
This news crept under my radar three weeks ago. That’s to say, I saw the video where the Scottish Education Secretary announced the cancellation of the procurement of the next phase of the national education intranet, but the announcement was couched and contextualised in such a way that he was pulling the plug on the … Continue reading
Do virtual schools have to be about “warehouse teaching”?
Many of us believe that new forms of learning that are self-organised and encourage self-starting resilience can be better than the traditional models. But we must be alive to the risks and the “other side of the coin” all the time. This account (possibly not impartial, but neither are many accounts) paints a dystopian picture … Continue reading
Interview with @stephenheppell about future schools, including his “rule of 3” (http://goo.gl/WkzlW)
Here’s an excerpt from a fairly wide-ranging interview. It’s four months old now, but I’m guessing only a minority of those passing by this site will have seen it before… The quote, “Schools are full of things that our descendants will look back on and laugh out loud at”, seems especially plausible. Clipped from http://www.fastcodesign.com … Continue reading
Tomorrow’s London meet-up has Andrew Davis (MySpace, BBC,EdExcel) on why teachers need to understand social media
Looking forward to this – Thanks to Lucy Johnson (@clumie on Amplify or @creativeducator on Twitter) for setting this up! Clipped from http://www.meetup.com Andrew Davis on applying social media to help schools and educational institutes We’ve invited Andrew Davis of Edexel, Myspace and the BBC to come and chat to us. Andrew is is the … Continue reading
When 1-1 distance education is better than f2f classrooms, by @DonaldClark
Donald Clark’s take on new, cost-effective models for providing personal tutoring, online and 24/7. On the conservative side, it’s still teaching; on the radical side, it’s outsourcing teaching to India. But Donald’s full post also explains how adults with poor literacy and numeracy are happy being tutored at home via the net, whereas they feel … Continue reading
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