Sometimes teachers teach us rules, and when we grow up we discover that it was all a myth. I was taught at school that beginning a sentence with a conjunction was a mistake. “Don’t start a sentence with ‘and’, ‘but’, ‘because’!” the strict grammarian said, “and never, ever split an infinitive.” I was looking up [...]
With changes in legislation governing school communication coming in to force in September, many schools are refreshing or rebuilding their websites over the summer holidays. But what should you consider when creating a website for a school? What are your audience looking for when they visit your website? Our top tips for a successful school [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
