Not quite on the road to Damascus, but perhaps taking a look at the signpost! As a long time supporter of the benefits of technology in education I feel that the current trends are making me more concerned about its use. My concern is this: what I see is not technology being developed to meet… Read More Standing at the crossroads
What I am going to try and say in this post is that stuff is complicated and connected. Learning, teaching, working. Everything. So if you have neither the time of the inclination to waste several minutes of your life reading my drivel, then you can take that and go. Of course, if you disagree violently… Read More A self-indulgent post about connections
Within 10 years I will be able to buy a pair of glasses that to all intents and purposes appear the same as my current prescription specs but have all the affordances of Google Glass. I will be able to look at an exam paper and have the answers fed back to me on a… Read More A (very) short post about Glass
Ewan McIntosh has pointed out Eric Schmidt is wrong in Scotland, but he is also wrong in England as careful readers of the ICT National Curriculum Programme of Study and (particularly) the Level Descriptors (the key bits of which I have extracted below): Level 3 – They use sequences of instructions to control devices and achieve specific outcomes.… Read More Why Eric Schmidt (and quite a few others) are only partly right
Distant Ramblings on the Horizon 