Mobile Phones in School: Problem or Opportunity?
Should schools ban mobile phones? Should a law banning them be passed, as has happened in France recently? Chris Shelton examines the issues.
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STEM to STEAM MOOC
This week sees the launch of a 3-week MOOC from the Digital Learning across Boundaries (DLaB) Erasmus+ project on the theme of STEM to STEAM. You can join in here: http://dlaberasmus.eu/courses/stem-steam-online-course
This post gives some background to the DLaB approach to STEAM.
Exciting developments — and a chance for teachers to get involved
In this blog Helen shares details of a great project, and also calls for teachers who would like to be involved in testing the technology in the academic year 2018-19 to get in touch.
Continue reading →Influencing policy and practice in digital education
Professor Christina Preston, Chair of ITTE and founder of MirandaNet, writes about the history of our professional influence in policy and practice from the 1980s up to the current day.
Continue reading →Teacher recruitment
Andy Connell is pleased about a letter from Nick Gibb, the Schools Minister, about teacher recruitment.
Continue reading →Strengthening qualified teacher status and career progression
Andy Connell offers his initial thoughts on the Government’s response to the recent consultation.
Continue reading →5 Ways To Develop Critical Thinking In ICT And Computing
What does critical thinking look like in ICT and Computing?
Continue reading →A report on Bett 2018
Bett is now over for another year. In this article, Terry Freedman reflects on the themes seen there this year.
Continue reading →Report into children’s use of social media – A call for more input on digital citizenship in schools
Children’s wellbeing is a much discussed topic. The annual Good Childhood Report (https://www.childrenssociety.org.uk/sites/default/files/the-good-childhood-report-2017_full-report_0.pdf) often makes bleak reading, with children’s happiness in 2017 at its lowest level since 2010. Many children face multiple problems in their lives, with issues such as … Continue reading →
Touch screens before toddling?
To iPad or not to iPad is a question many parents face Helen Caldwell, Senior Lecturer in Education (Primary Computing) at the University of Northampton shares her thoughts on the benefits of young children using digital technologies. Children today … Continue reading →
Literally stepping through algorithms: visualising algorithms with sorting networks
Algorithms and algorithmic thinking are central to learning about computing. Unfortunately, an algorithm, as a thing itself, can be rather abstract; it can be difficult for students to understand what the algorithm is doing and how the execution of the … Continue reading →
After the reboot
After the Reboot: Computing Education in Schools by Liz Jones The Royal Society has recently published a review of UK Computing Education as a milestone since the introduction of a new curriculum three years ago. The Society wanted to see how the … Continue reading →
Crossing boundaries through digital learning
The Digital Learning across Boundaries (DLaB) project aims to promote digital learning across the boundaries of the physical space of classrooms, across curriculum subjects, across languages and cultures and throughout facilitating collaborative learning across national boundaries. Over three years the … Continue reading →
What is ‘Translational Research’: how to translate theory and research findings to practical applications
Translational Research is research which has, as its prime focus, linking theory and research findings to applications in practice. The concept of translational research applies in all disciplines but is most developed at the current time in the medical sector. … Continue reading →
ITTE working with the Micro:bit Foundation
Over the coming year, ITTE will be working with the Micro:bit Educational Foundation to support teacher educators and student teachers to use micro:bits in the classroom. In this post, Philip Meitiner, the International Program Manager for the Micro:bit Educational Foundation … Continue reading →