Technology and Impact
In this thought-provoking post, Professor Andy Connell asks: as advocates of technology are we doing enough to support growing economies in avoiding the messy mistakes we made?
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Can The International Society Of Technology In Education’s Standards In Computing Be Adapted For Use In The UK?
We have been looking at the Computing standards from the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE). Here’s an outline of what we’ve been doing.
Continue reading →Professional Crossroads and Identity Crises: Finding My Tribe
Professional Crossroads and Identity Crises: Finding My Tribe
Dr Elizabeth Hidson shares her professional journey from IT teacher to teacher researcher, thinking about educational shifts in educational technology over the last 20 years.
Should children in the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) learn about technology?
Emma Goto considers the case for allowing very young children to use technology.
Continue reading →New online postgraduate course in digital leadership
Helen Caldwell at the University of Northampton has developed a new online postgraduate certificate in digital leadership
Continue reading →Update on the Erasmus funded project: Mobile Pedagogical Assistant
Helen Boulton gives an update on an international project which is developing a mobile technology to measure the engagement and attention of students with learning challenges.
Continue reading →Applying the Goldilocks Effect to Educational Technology
In the 19th century fairy tale Goldilocks was looking for the right chair, the right bowl of porridge, and the right bed. At times we may be like Goldilocks looking for the right educational technology that we can use with our learners.
Continue reading →Teaching as a vocation
You have to be brave to change your career — especially in your 40s. So why did Dominic Preston make the leap? Professor Christina Preston, his mother, interviewed him to find out.
Continue reading →The value of simplicity and experimentation in learning programming
Dave Darwent explains why being prepared to be wrong is crucial for learning, and why the simple text-based games of the 80’s were ideally suited for this.
Continue reading →TPEA Think Tank: Meeting the edtech research challenge
Join us at our first edtech policy and practice Thinktank, to offer solutions to Secretary of State, Damian Hinds’, research challenge.
Continue reading →GM Digital Talent Pipeline
GM Digital Talent Pipeline: a discussion of the Greater Manchester Digital Strategy research by John Sibbald
Continue reading →What are the best models for EdTech teacher training and professional development?
What are the best models for EdTech teacher training and professional development? Valuable research, effective programmes and successful practices? A lively debate at the ITTE & MirandaNet Winchester Forum 7/8th June 2018 with a panel of speakers and an audience discussing the best ways to support EdTech Teacher Training and CPD.
Continue reading →Hits and myths: Moocs may be wonderful idea, but they’re not viable
Hits and myths: Moocs may be wonderful idea, but they’re not viable. Although we need to explore new structures for higher education, agrees Diana Laurillard, unsupervised learning is not the answer. A discussion on the future of Massive Open Online Courses by Diana Laurillard.
Continue reading →Is an obsession with exams restricting the curriculum?
‘An obsession with exams is forcing schools to restrict the curriculum and is leading to damaging consequences, say both teachers and parents’. Andy Connell discusses views from the Council for Subject Associations on the narrowing of the curriculum.
Continue reading →What’s in a name?
Does the name of our field — e-learning, I.T, education technology and so on — affect the way it is seen by colleagues? Dave Darwent explores this question.
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