Give the teacher what he wants to hear. A conforming affinity masking the real me.

Our playstationary nation has spawned a generation whose gumption to get up and go has …………. gone.

During my keynote yesterday at the Portsmouth Virtual Learning – Future ICT Conference. I handed out my camera and encouraged folks to take photos of whatever took their fancy, passing the camera along the rows while I was speaking. The results of this ‘digital doodling’ were really interesting and give another take on proceedings. I later uploaded the results to Flickr which demonstrated nicely the relationship between creativity and Web 2.0 tools. Delegates were also encouraged to take photos with their cameraphones and post them to the conference blog. Click on the photo to...

It is as if a mist descends in the educational world when new concepts or trends are given a label and celebrated by the technical world as the next goal for educators. Web 2.0 is definitely one of those slogans that does little to whet the creative thirst of the vast majority of teachers. Most have not even heard of it. I was facilitating a Web 2.0 seminar yesterday for Primary School teachers and none had come across the term before. The fog was rolling in it seemed. However, when asked how they currently encouraged collaboration and communication in the classroom, they came up with a host...

Terry Freedman writes a thought-provoking and challenging article which bemoans the lack of educational evaluation of the latest innovations. ...if you call yourself an educationalist, you have to go a step or two further than just mentioning some great new “tool”: you have a responsibility, in my opinion, to evaluate it from the point of view of how it will actually work in practice For me the problem lies not in the evaluation of the latest software innovations but in the lack of real implementation at the chalkface. Most consultants, researchers, lecturers and other educational folks...

Perhaps this isn’t the most appropriate time to take revenge for the horrendous photo that Ewan posted of me a few months back but I send it with the most positive of vibes and trust that stuff will sort itself out for him soon