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  • 14- 19, keeping track when students move around!

    A continuing trend in education is the need to support 14 - 19 choice, and to achieve this schools join consortia to improve the range of courses on offer. This presents two problems: How do you move them around? How do you know where the student is? The first is still awaiting an answer, often involving...
    Posted to Education Technology in Schools (Weblog) by Sophie on 09-09-2008

  • XO2 - A new format for the sub $100 notebook

    The $100 dollar laptop project has moved on with a new look and format, and is now planned to be $75! The new device created by the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project opens like a book and has a new price of $75. It's not aimed to replace the original laptop created by the project, but even that...
    Posted to Education Technology in Schools (Weblog) by Sophie on 05-25-2008

  • Technophobe Teachers?

    The following is an opinion from Andrew Pinder , Chair of Becta in an extract from an article in the Times 7Jan 2008 : "State schools spent £1 billion on cutting-edge information technology last year but 80 per cent of them are failing to make full use of it, according to experts. Pupils now handle equipment...
    Posted to Education Technology in Schools (Weblog) by Sophie on 01-30-2008

  • Intel pulls out of One Laptop Per Child Project.

    It would seem that a 'philisophical difference' between Intel and the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) Project has ended in divorce. It was well known that whilst Intel was on the board of the OLPC project, it was also touting its own solution, the Classmate as a rival. As previously posted this culminated...
    Posted to Education Technology in Schools (Weblog) by Sophie on 01-04-2008

  • Podcasting - quick wins for quality

    I've been really getting into podcasting and also into adding audio to slidehare and voicethread shows. The latter are two excellent online presentation tools that allow the user to quickly narrate and publish PowerPoints and create stories based around pictures. For those unaware, Podcasting is where...
    Posted to Education Technology in Schools (Weblog) by Sophie on 12-08-2007

  • Minor handheld skirmish in Nigeria?

    Two competing initiatives aimed at providing cheap computers to children in emerging economies appear to be slugging it out over the same turf. Abuja in Nigeria is where the action is ... apparently! The interesting thing is that two competing projects, The ' One Laptop per Child ' ($100 laptop) (OLC...
    Posted to Education Technology in Schools (Weblog) by Sophie on 12-04-2007

  • i-whiteboards - the benefits are clear?

    Following outstanding claims for the effectiveness of interactive whiteboards in a recent Becta research report and highlighted by my colleagues on their Blog , I read the full report . Its very thorough, and offers some interesting conclusions if you read between the lines. It takes between 18 months...
    Posted to Education Technology in Schools (Weblog) by Sophie on 10-25-2007
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