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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
Stuff that's caught my eye! - 111008

Schools Radio Network Schools are invited to register now with the Schools Radio Network – a new initiative - and give their students a national voice. SchoolsRadio.com encourages students up to age 18 to create and share their own audio programmes with other UK schools through a specially regulated...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 10-11-2008
14- 19, keeping track when students move around!

A continuing trend in education is the need to support 14 - 19 choice, and to achieve this schools join consortia to improve the range of courses on offer. This presents two problems: How do you move them around? How do you know where the student is? The first is still awaiting an answer, often involving...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 09-09-2008
New Line Learning Academy + Samsung Q1 = 1:1?

Saw this interesting video produced by LANWAY in partnership with the New Line Learning Academies in Maidstone. The video is clearly a commercial for both the devices and the partner company, but this is exactly the sort of partnership that adds value to education, providing students with examples of...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 02-07-2008
Struggling with technology?

According to a Teacher Voice Omnibus Survey report published by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) , a third of teachers struggle to use the technology schools are equipped with and want more support and training. Since the survey is a measure of the opinion of teachers, it isn't...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 02-02-2008
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
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
Podcasting - quick wins for quality

I've been really getting into podcasting and also into adding audio to slidehare and voicethread shows. The latter are two excellent online presentation tools that allow the user to quickly narrate and publish PowerPoints and create stories based around pictures. For those unaware, Podcasting is where...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 12-08-2007
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
Politics similar to education? Surely Not?

David Cameron’s speech at the Google Zeitgeist Conference in San Francisco offered interesting parallels with education. In it he suggests that the impact of technology is that politicians need to “... let go of power”, and speaks of a people taking more responsibility for themselves in a post-bureaucratic...

Posted to Next Generation Learning in Kent (Weblog) by AlanDay on 10-12-2007

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