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  • Becta Web 2.0 Research Report

    Web 2.0 technologies for learning at KS3 and KS4 Becta commissioned the University of Nottingham in conjunction with London Knowledge Lab and Manchester Metropolitan University to research Web 2.0 technologies for learning at Key Stages 3 and 4. The purpose of this research was to help shape Becta’s...
    Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 10-11-2008

  • 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

  • Technophobe Teachers?

    The following is an opinion from Andrew Pinder , Chair of Becta in an extract from an article in the Times 7Jan 2008 : "State schools spent £1 billion on cutting-edge information technology last year but 80 per cent of them are failing to make full use of it, according to experts. Pupils now handle equipment...
    Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 01-30-2008

  • Creating or responding to the world?

    I am at a Becta regional event on Personalised Learning, and an interesting position has just been stated. "We have to prepare children for the technological world in which we live" It just made me think ... if the focus of education is on preparation, are we not in doing so creating a world that cannot...
    Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 12-11-2007

  • i-whiteboards - the benefits are clear?

    Following outstanding claims for the effectiveness of interactive whiteboards in a recent Becta research report and highlighted by my colleagues on their Blog , I read the full report . Its very thorough, and offers some interesting conclusions if you read between the lines. It takes between 18 months...
    Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 10-25-2007
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