Children, Learning, Wellbeing and Technology

Below are some quotes from an article by Jay Griffiths (“Futuristic Overdrive”) published in the Guardian this week. The article considers some important issues about children’s relationship with technology and computers – a subject we’ve commented on recently. You can … Continue reading →

Teaching Coding and a New Learning Revolution

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The Bandwagon of the Year in Britain this year may well be “coding”. Jeremy Paxman on BBC2 Newsnight last night was exceptionally (and perhaps deliberately) obtuse on this subject whilst conducting an interview on the merits of learning to code … Continue reading →

Meeting Needs, Personal Intelligence and Equal Opportunities

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I heard someone say to someone else recently, “Don’t neglect your own needs”, which prompted the thought that not only do many people not know or understand their own needs, they sometimes don’t seem to know or accept that everyone … Continue reading →

Music, Technology and Serenity

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Combining two of our main areas of interest, today we’re considering the technology of music. Many of us are now familiar with the range of gadgets that enable us to listen to music. We also use programmes and companies such … Continue reading →

Digital Literacy and a Revolution in the Classroom – Part Two

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Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, is surely a man who ought to know about the digital world. This Sunday he wrote the following article for the Observer, by way of responding to the Observer’s campaign to bring ‘coding’ … Continue reading →

The Hunt for Artificial Intelligence

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Yesterday’s Horizon on BBC2 featured a monster supercomputer that performs millions of calculations per second and can crunch mountains of data for days on end without stopping for a microsecond. And so what? It’s just doing what it’s been designed, … Continue reading →

Digital Literacy and a Revolution in the Classroom – Part One

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I use the Internet most days, and Shockwave Flash’s tendency to crash is driving me mental. (I know, I know – much worse things happen in life.) Shockwave Flash? I have no idea what Shockwave Flash is. I’ve no idea … Continue reading →

The World is our Classroom, Technology our Support System

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  If you go to the website of our friends at WordPress and take a look at what’s currently being published under their “education” tag, you find he following header: IN 1966, THE UNITED NATION’S INTERNATIONAL COVENANT ON ECONOMIC, SOCIAL … Continue reading →

Welcome to the desktop degree…

There’s food for thought in the following article in the Guardian for everyone involved in education at any level. “Traditional teaching methods” and the role of computers and the Internet in education are issues that are continuously under scrutiny and … Continue reading →