Arnold Schwarzenegeer has signed an Executive Order in California is intended to tackle the digital divide, California’s competitiveness and leadership role in the US. Some interesting statistics were given to support the Executive Order.
Less than half of Latinos (48%) have home computers, compared with about 86% for Whites, 84% for Asians, and 79% for Blacks.
Only […]
Whilst still relatively newbie user of Twitter we are starting to see educators use the technology to great effect.
Thanks to Jude O’Connell, who pointed to this video of a lecturer using Twitter for class feedback. What was interesting about this was that the students found the exercise added considerable value to their experience in the […]
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Thanks to Jenny Lewis (CEO, ACEL), I was pointed to this interesting piece of research out of the US. The Speak Up 2008 Research project was conducted by Project Tomorrow (PT) PT is a not-for-profit national education group based in California. Its vision is to ensure that today’s students are prepared to be tomorrow’s innovators, […]
At the SICTAS symposium on Friday I was a provocatuer and my assertion was that the next Digital Education Revolution might involve the government giving tax breaks to parents (actually, they already do…..see Education Tax Refund) to purchase computers rather than give the money to school/school systems to provide. Now students will own the computers […]
April 21, 2009 – 11:14 pm
For those who have had the experience of coming out of the London Underground and being disoriented, I had that experience today on my way to a meeting with Sarah Porter from JISC. However, my iPhone through its GPS system was able to pinpoint where I was and I quickly realised I was actually walking away […]
April 16, 2009 – 10:01 pm
We recently released a short review of the latest material around the world on 21st century learning spaces. What is interesting about the designs for flexible learning is that learning spaces should reflect the different kinds of learning from instructional to collaborative. In the past our rooms were designed essentially for one type of learning. […]
In Brussels working with teachers from around the world on selecting content for learning and looking at the concept of travel well as part of the EUN project funded by the Hewlett Foundation. We are exploring what characteristics allow resources to be used across countries.
Barbara (from the US) showed the http://nobelprize.org/educational_games site. She said that this […]
Imagine if the Digital Education Revolution (DER) was not about schools providing the technology for the students but the government actually funded the students, through tax breaks and grants, the ability to purchase their own equipment. In many instances, this is already the case…and in some private schools actually encouraged. BTW, our current government is encouraging […]
Don Tapscott says that those people who are negative and critical about how this generation has been dumbed down by the internet is not true. See his video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoqiRRMQ0fs
He says this generation are not only using the internet they are changing it. He described how his kids created an online community pre-release of his book […]
