Book Review: ‘Digital Play in Early Childhood’ by Mona Sakr
This review by Rajvir Cheema considers the book as a potential literature piece for an undergraduate course.
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Adam and me: are robots robotic?
Who will be running the world 2020? Are we being led into a world of robotic draconian morality? Are we in danger of being entrapped by the best coders who think logically to a fault? Black and white or grey? We have some decisions to make.
Continue reading →Global Education
After discussing some great ideas, the challenge now, Professor Connell says, is to make them happen.
Continue reading →Teacher CPD
Despite everyone’s best intentions, in-service professional learning for teachers remains one of the most poorly delivered aspects of our education system. Is the time right for Teacher CPD through e-learning? Bernard Dady compares some options.
Continue reading →The Power of Professional Networks
Emma Goto discusses the usefulness of professional networks for spreading great ideas and practice.
Continue reading →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?
Continue reading →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.
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