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Readers who were children in the 70s or 80s, (or frequenters of Wimbledon Common) may have heard of the Wombles. They were a fictional group of furry rodent like creatures who collected old rubbish and recycled and reused it in creative ways. In many ways ahead of their times before recycling was trendy, but still …
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I recently managed to fully complete my first MOOC after previous courses where I dropped out after a few weeks. The course was a very good course run by Norwegian University NTNU called Smart Læring (English: Smart Learning). I will reflect on the course more in another post but for those who read Norwegian you are welcome …
A picture popped up on my Facebook feed today which has been nicknamed the “viral Rembrandt kids on phones photo”. The original photo is from November 2014 and it received mainstream media coverage from The Telegraph in the UK in January 2016. If you want a detailed summary of the photo, story and reaction the …
Continue reading “Why do people get so angry about children learning with technology?”
We live in a digital world where everyone has the opportunity to be a creator and where we are all consumers of information. Aside from the occasional paywalled website, information is free and accessible by all in a variety of formats. This last week a video entitled “Kony 2012” has gone viral and sparked a …
This morning I woke up to the rather alarming headline that “dull” ICT was to be dropped from the school curriculum to be replaced by computing. The story coming on the back of a department of education press release summarising a speech to be given later in the day by education minister Michael Gove. I’ve …
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Common wisdom says teens don’t twitter Here’s a few articles saying exactly that (in chronological order 2011 to 2009) http://blog.eloqua.com/why-teens-dont-use-twitter/ http://mashable.com/2010/02/03/teens-dont-tweet-or-blog/ http://techcrunch.com/2009/08/30/why-dont-teens-tweet-we-asked-over-10000-of-them/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jul/13/twitter-teenage-media-habits http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/teens-dont-tweet-twitters-growth-not-fueled-by-youth/ While it may be the case that the majority of teens don’t tweet judging by today’s trends on Twitter in the UK they certainly have a strong presence. All the trending …
The Purposed Project has got me writing on my blog again rather than just thinking of things I should get round to writing. I’ve taken part in 3 stages of the project starting with my earlier blog post “Time To Learn”, then a bit more passively with this lovely picture quote mashup created and contributed …
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This is my 500 words for Purpose/d. Another wonderful project from a group of educators looking to inspire, create debate and eventually change. I’m supposed to read the posts before mine and respond to some of the points. I’ve read some but not all, and I’ll use that as my segway to my 500 words, …
A number of places on the web have posted some fascinating Facebook stats of activity in 2010 – I can’t work out where the original source is but will post some references at the end. They quote that in 2010 in a randomly sampled 20 minute time slot there were (in order) Comments: 10,208,000 Likes: …
My day at Limmud Conference Every day at Limmud is different, no doubt I’ve included too much information in this blog post but I wanted to give a full picture of what this conference is actually about. It does miss out all the important little conversations in between sessions, over meals and to the people …