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Bravo Mr Gove #schoolstech #ictcurric
Unless you’ve been living under a rock today I’m assuming you’ll have seen some excitable headlines followed by a more detailed speech about the future of technology in education in the UK and in particular the future of the subject of ICT. In a nutshell Mr Gove has scrapped the ICT curriculum, whilst keeping ICT…
Inside the mind of a young rioter #manchesterriots #londonriots
Like most of the UK (and beyond), I’ve spent the last 5 days watching with dismay as England has descended into widespread looting, arson & violence. It’s been a shocking example of just how thin the bubble of civilised society is and just how close we live to something akin to Lord Of The Flies….
#LWF11 – David McCandless, Author & Information Designer – Infographics & Data
David is the author of http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/. Worked through some fantastic infographics from his site, go look at them now. Better still see his TED talk: Some interesting insights from using Google InSights to track search terms. Great tool for use in the classroom. Nice talk about needing to compare proportions rather than totals, in the concept of…
Guided Access iOS
Guided Access is a great new accessibility feature on the iPad that allows you to lock an iPad (or other iOS device) into one application and even restrict which parts of the screen can be interacted with. Some of our staff have been concerned about handing their iPads over to learners, conscious that their confidential…
Google Plus – Google’s next take on social networking
So Google have started releasing their new social product Google+ or Google Plus. And it looks interesting if a little familiar to Twitter & Facebook. Of particular interest is their attempt to allow you to segment your acquaintances and share certain information with certain people via the ‘circles’ feature: This makes sense – I’m often a bit uncomfortable with my mix…
Does Gove Get Games?
Does Gove Get Games? A strangely positive sounding report from the great Edge Magazine quotes Gove speaking at The Royal Society, in particular referring to the excellent www.mangahigh.com that Marcus du Sautoy has had some input in. “I am sure that this field of educational games has huge potential for maths and science teaching and…
