The Guardian Takes Sugata Mitra to Task…
…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...
…..and gets it completely wrong! Peter Wilby, whose Guardian writings on education I usually have some respect for, seems to fall heavily into the trap of...
This is the second piece of a 2-part post. Part 1 can be found here. In my M-Learning post from August 2014, I wrote that: …providers of content, courses,...
This is the first piece of a 2-part post. Just 18 months or so ago I pondered here on my blog whether M-Learning was about to go mainstream. I wrote: The combin...
The Internet is all things to all people. Well, almost. It hasn’t quite got there yet in Education, for instance. But it will. It must. I want to look ...
Each new week brings with it the publication of yet another book telling us how technological developments will damage, or are already damaging, humankind. We a...
Way way back in the dark ages, in the pre-history of the Web – around 1991, to be more precise – I wrote a paper for what was then the Scottish Coun...
Anxiety sells! So says The Economist this week in an excellent piece showing just how long we have had to listen to the oft-heard announcements of the terminal ...
Too many who design network infrastructures for schools or campuses believe that they are creating something akin to a standard enterprise architecture, and tha...
The limitless network of networks that we now inhabit, with its boundless stores of data and information, is quickly democratizing access to knowledge for every...
The book, as we have known and loved it for half a millennium and more, is an object of veneration for many. I am undeniably a bibliophile, and while it is most...