Every now and again, I meet some special people who remind me in the most delightful of ways why I have spent the greater part of my life involved in education....
This is the fourth in an occasional series of posts highlighting some of the books that led me into education or that have greatly influenced me as an educator ...
…..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...
The makar has been an exalted component of Scottish literature and culture for more than 600 years. The makars were the makers of poems, the ancient poets and b...
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 ...
There are those who would prefer to pretend otherwise, but developments in the digital and networking technologies over recent decades, developments that are gr...
This is Part 2 of a 2-part post. See Part 1 here. So, what ought the more sensible and, I would hope, somewhat more progressive, amongst us in education be look...
This is the 1st part of a 2-part post. According to the Horizon Report for 2015 (Higher Education edition) the Internet of Things (IoT) has a 4-to-5-years adopt...