We’re currently working with the GTC to investigate how the Teacher Learning Academy can be developed and improved by utilising a range of digital resources and tools. It’s a really exciting project as we’ve a chance to really support teachers in their professional learning and development: an area that is key to classroom innovation and the development of new approaches to teaching and learning.

I’m always on the look out for ways to bring more relevant themes into ICT. I’m also keen to bridge the gap between the ways students use computers in school and at home.
A project that my school is doing on SEAL (social, emotional aspects of learning) provided the ideal opportunity to update our first unit [...]

At the Handheld Learning Conference last week I presented with Lyndsay Grant a workshop entitled ‘Mobile Learning Exchange‘ that overviewed mobile learning and then hosted something of a discussion about common approaches and concerns.
One of the conversations from the ‘exchange’ related to the question of where the tools are to support schools recognising and supporting [...]

The new NESTA report just out (June 2007) Hidden Innovation - How Innovation happens in six ‘low innovation’ sectors is something that every senior politician and strategic manager in England must read.
In this piece I’ll be concerned with the education bit as that’s what I have done in depth for the last 4 years - [...]