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Northgate acquiring Anite?

Northgate Information Solutions has agreed to acquire Anite Public Sector Holdings Limited , which incorporates Anite ’s local government and secure information systems businesses, for a total cash consideration of £54.3 million payable at completion, subject to the settlement of a £3.8 million receivable...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 08-05-2008
If you read just one book ...

Last week Jerry, a colleague handed me a short book, What's Next: 21 Ideas for 21st Century Learning by Charles Leadbeater , and published by the Innovation Unit . Jerry was emphatic as he placed it on my desk ... "This says what I believe ... ". The book is available free online . I read...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 07-19-2008
Government Computers go green!

With Gershon efficiency savings being imposed on Local Government, and cascaded down to schools, I picked up an interesting Cabinet Office news item from a colleague. A bold plan has been announced to reduce carbon emission caused by ICT in central government. The principles are just as applicable to...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 07-18-2008
Harnessing Technology:Next Generation Learning - New Strategy in a nutshell!

I thought that I would try to summarise the key features of the revised and updated e-strategy Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning ; a sort of ' Reduced Shakespeare Company ' version for those who don't have time to read the document. Key Strategic Aims Learner entitlement to...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 07-17-2008
Learning in class?

The chart above is taken from the recently published revision of the e-strategy, Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning . It shows the learning experiences of children taken from MORI survey evidence. Its quite an indictment that the most common experience is still copying from board or book...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 07-15-2008
Becta awards Open Source schools project

The Open Source community is apparently ' up in arms' following Becta's decision to award a £270K Open Source project contract to AlphaPlus Consultancy . This follows previous work with Becta on e-learning vocabularies . Mark Taylor of Sirius Ltd , a firm that describe themselves as 'The...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 06-15-2008
XO2 - A new format for the sub $100 notebook

The $100 dollar laptop project has moved on with a new look and format, and is now planned to be $75! The new device created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project opens like a book and has a new price of $75. It's not aimed to replace the original laptop created by the project, but even that...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 05-25-2008
Post 'Byron Review'?

The Byron Report , Behind the Screen , and Grand Theft Childhood have all thrown their hats into the ring with research and recommendations for the safe use of technology by children; all agree that it is a complex area of research. There isn't much to disagree with in the recommendations found in...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 05-24-2008
Managing ICT - Value for Money

The Dept. for children, schools and families (DCSF) has published guidance for schools on the strategic management of ICT. The information can be found on their Standards website in the Value for Money (VfM) section . Advice includes: I CT Development Plans (advice and guidance) ICT's about learning...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 05-17-2008
Intel pulls out of One Laptop Per Child Project.

It would seem that a 'philisophical difference' between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project has ended in divorce. It was well known that whilst Intel was on the board of the OLPC project, it was also touting its own solution, the Classmate as a rival. As previously posted this culminated...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 01-04-2008

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