I’ve just received a tweet from Alan Teece as follows: School learning platforms a complete failure. In over 40 secondary school visits since easter, 90% make no use and the rest limited. Scandal I have seen really good use of learning platforms by a very small number of staff in a few schools, other than [...]
The DFE recently announced new legislation concerning school websites which comes into effect for the 1st of September 2012. In summary, the new legislation is removing the requirement for schools to provide a paper prospectus and is instead requiring schools to have all of the information available online. Is your website ready? Do you have a description [...]
The credit-card sized computer designed to help teach children to program code has gone on sale today. Raspberry Pi is a low-cost, simple computer created by a small group of people from the education world and the UK tech industry. It is sold uncased without a keyboard or monitor, the Pi has gained much interest [...]
Well Michael Gove thinks the way forward is to take on board the Rasberry Pi. I fear that some schools will make large purchases of the new product when it becomes available, on the recommendation of a rather ‘technical’ type, only to find a very limited use with the majority of students. Programming is important [...]
The atmosphere of the BETT Show 2012 was generally quite subdued yesterday with one great exception … Google! The staff on their stand were buzzing with the excitement of Michael Gove’s announcement yesterday mentioning Google directly and without doubt the best set of freebies in the show were to be found with Google branding! A [...]
Michael Gove is presenting his new idea today as he opens the BETT 2012 Show at Olympia in London. He proposes that schools will be give more freedom to teach ICT more creatively. Wow! Impressive stuff! See: http://gu.com/p/34te6/tf
The Education Reach team will be visiting the BETT 2012 Show at Olympia in London. This will inform our people and update the team on the latest issues. The show is dedicated to showcasing the best in UK and international educational technology products, resources and best practice, BETT has enabled thousands of practitioners to enhance [...]
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt made many interesting observations when delivering the MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh International Television Festival recently. “The UK is home of so many media-related inventions. You invented photography. You invented TV. You invented computers in both concept and practice.” He said he had been flabbergasted to learn that computer science was [...]
