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When I'm gone - or 'Beyond current horizons'
As a journalist, your first priority is to listen to other people and represent them as even-handedly as possible. You are not part of the story. So the first reaction when Dan Sutch of Futurelab...
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When teachers connect a visualiser to a projector they can share virtually any document or artefact with their learners - even across a video-conference, explains Dave Smith Four years ago, while...
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'Pupils better than teachers with ICT' says Ofsted
By Bob HarrisonAn Ofsted report published this week has mixed messages for schools about how effectively ICT is being taught as a subject and, more important, how ICT is used to support learning in...
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Roll over Dr Johnson - all eyes on Scotland for ICT
Terry Freedman celebrates Scotland's ground-breaking work with ICTSamuel Johnson once said, "The noblest prospect which a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to England." Many of us who...
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Dead men don’t fall through open windows - why Becta must close
By Martin Littler Re-reading A Passage to India, where E M Forster describes one of the mirror-walled Marabar Caves as “a bubble-shaped cave that has neither ceiling nor floor, and mirrors its own...
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'Innovation and creativity' mark Frog conference
By Bob Harrison“More innovation and creativity using digital technologies” was the rallying cry of the presenters and 700 delegates at the Frog National Learning Platforms Conference in Manchester this...
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An 'open source manifesto' to counter the ICT cuts
Open Source Schools' Miles Berry offers a radical response to the ICT funding cutsSo far, things have not gone particularly well for ICT in schools under the new government. We've seen Becta's funding...
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Word imperfect – how dyslexia affects teachers too
As reports question teachers' literacy and SEN expertise, Paul Haigh calls for honesty and ICT solutions As teachers our own education experience and academic success is probably key to us joining the...
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That £50m flutter with Harnessing Technology cash
When deputy prime minister Nick Clegg MP recently claimed on Channel 4 News that the Coalition Government would not be “taking resources, and people and attention away from [other] schools” he touched...
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BCS opens conflict on another front - tweeters
What's eating the British Computer Society? Hasn't its membership 'civil war' given it enough internal trouble and strife without needing to enrage tweeters and bloggers alike with its lecture ban on...
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Heavyweight thinkers behind Education Fast Forward
A new 'think tank' wants education to keep pace with social change and technology What differentiates the best technology companies working with schools? An understanding of how learning happens in and...
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Taking liberties: fingerprint folly could cost millions
Brian Lightman warns of a hidden danger in the Protection of Freedoms BillEvery day in more than 1,000 secondary schools in England, students buy their lunch, check out library books and access...
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Time to switch schools on to social networks – safely?
Digitalme's Damian Payton argues that it's time for schools to embrace social mediaSchools aren’t keeping pace with children’s cultural lives outside their gates. Social networking and smartphones...
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Why closing the Oxford ACE Centre will shame us all
If the ACE Centre goes, something of the UK goes with it, warns Peter FowlerYou can always judge a society by the way in which it treats its most vulnerable citizens. It’s an understanding we have had...
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Free books kindling a love of reading in Romania
Peter Fogarty on how Amazon Kindles spurred him to create his Free Guided Reading website for schoolsIn a world where everything is possible on the Internet – and for free – it came as a shock to find...
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Glow plight - pride of Scotland or 'zombie' network?
Was Glow derailed by a pointless procurement exercise? Jaye Richards-Hill reportsHow did the world's first national schools intranet veer towards becoming the world's first Zombie intranet? Because...
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'I learn more by teaching than learning' – Gavin Dykes
Education adviser Gavin Dykes (above, in Beijing) reflects using the 'Five Things I have Learned' format 1. I learned more by teaching than by learning More than 20 years ago I turned my back on a...
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Skills Show highlights importance of ICT for careers
Skills Show boss Ross Maloney stresses the importance of ICT skills for both employers and the workforceA new era for ICT skills and apprenticeships was heralded at Birmingham at our annual event, The...
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Books are dead! Long live books! Join the revolution
Author, publisher and former teacher Sue Rankin signposts the revolutionary route to paperless schools Many historians regard the development of the printing press as the single most influential factor...
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Behind a picture postcard – Falmouth's vital statistics
Alex George explains how his school's creative use of MIS data help them with teaching, learning and anti-truancy strategies Ask anyone about Falmouth and they’ll mention sailing and beautiful...
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