Seeing as it is learning spaces week we thought it appropriate to introduce the fountain to you…

“Why do schools look the way they do? Why is there a chasm between widely acknowledged best practice principles and the actual design of a majority of school facilities? Why has the disconnect between learning research and learning places been so difficult to repair?”

It’s a crude generalisation but people used to split into those that played video games and those that didn’t. As the boundaries of what constitutes a game expand and the genres morph to include party games such as karaoke game singstar, brain boosting exercises like Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training, interactive mysteries [...]

Did anyone see the Cutting Edge documentary on Channel 4 last night about children under 24/7 paranoid parental surveillance? I found it all very depressing.