Apologies for not getting back to this last week as promised. As sometimes happens, life got in the way of blogging. Not regretting it at all, btw. ;0) So, whaddaya say we actually try to do something with these Big Questions, as in turn them into a document that schools can use to frame their [...]

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I want to thank each of you for checking back for updates about Tablet PC Education. The extended delay, I think, is over. During that time, I’ve outlined more steps, lists, charts, tables, and figures for software developers to automate aLEAP. And, learned how teachers are using aLEAP in classrooms. These things leave a great [...]

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Aleks Krotoski : [Lifestream] Twittersource: Laptop-friendly cafes near Oxford Street I shouted out for suggestions of good cafes near Oxford Street with owners who are happy for the office-displaced to work for an hour or five and these were the results: Aleks Krotoski : [Guardian] The challenges of filming The Virtual Revolution There was a [...]

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The Telegraph reports that the average Briton sees 10 extra days of work added to their year as a result of always-on email through devices like the Blackberry. Yesterday, in a workshop that included an overview of some productivity tips for coping with more information, I made the point that for teachers more than any [...]

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1 in 5 Glasgow parents wants to be able to communicate with teachers about their children’s work via Facebook and other social networking sites, reports the Glasgow Herald. I think this is potentially an underestimate: there are more than one in five parents in East Lothian, I’d guess, who take advantage of the online ‘coverage’ [...]

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‘Adapt or die’ verdict as modern languages go digital – Herald Scotland | Sport | SPL | Aberdeen Typical modern language lessons involving teacher, textbook and rigidly structured exchanges about hobbies, home towns and families are boring, boring, boring. So says Ewan McIntosh – not a stroppy teenager with a dislike for French – but [...]

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Charlie Brooker | Why I’m an ebook convert | Comment is free | The Guardian But the single biggest advantage to the ebook is this: no one can see what you're reading. You can mourn the loss of book covers all you want, but once again I say to you: no one can see what [...]

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Some old readers might remember that I was doing an advanced course on teaching. Unfortunately I could not finish it completely. So this year I enrolled for the same course with Indira Gandhi National Open University. I have to submit my first assignment by Monday, the 8th March. AT the moment – the class 10th [...]

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As we continue to have conversations around change with the 800 or so practitioners were working with in PLP, I continue to be struck by the frustration I’m feeling at the seeming separation between teaching and learning. I know that this isn’t new; I’ve been writing about teachers’ difficulties with being learners first here for [...]

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From the Leader of Newcastle City Council John Shipley at the superb libraries conference Edge2010 in Edinburgh Castle came this phrase. He believes that: “libraries come cheap at the price, reducing costs in almost every other problematic area of public spending: policing and crime prevention, vandalism, drug and alcohol abuse, social exclusion”. When he and [...]

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