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Website Blocking: bear hunts, battlefronts and missed opportunities?

Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

Click on this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytc0U2WAz4s

What you’ll hopefully have found is Michael Rosen, possibly the UK’s most celebrated children’s poet, performing ‘We’re going on a bear hunt’, at your finger tips. A brilliant opportunity to engage with a crafted performance of a poem, directed at the viewer, with sub-titles to read along with. A valuable resource, right there in your living room, office, or wherever else you access the internet. But not in your classroom.

Digital Learning-What comes next with Channel 4

Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

What Comes Next?
The Channel 4 Education Summer conference gathered together an eclectic mix of digital media and education professionals to consider how the UK Education system “struggles to respond to ever increasing demands, new policy initiatives, new demands from parents and students, and all the innovations in pedagogy, technology and neuroscience.”
This was a timely [...]

Mobile Learning BLOOM’s in House of Commons

Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009

Bloom in the House of Commons
Whilst most of the gossip in the bars and tea rooms was about who would be the new speaker, mobile learning was getting some exposure in dining room B as Roberta Blackman-Woods MP hosted a launch of the “bite sized learning opportunities on mobile devices” (BLOOM geddit?) project.
The partners in [...]

Don’t ban it…use it!

Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

Most of our schools and colleges ban Youtube but is there another way? Edutopia think so…..
http://www.edutopia.org/digital-generation-youtube-teaching-video