Educational Technology - ICT in Education

Key paragraph and website: "We will make government data accessible through a single access point at www.data.gov.uk, which will go live from January 2010 with over 1,100 central government datasets free for reuse, ranging from lists of schools to traffic volumes on the trunk road network."

Interesting overview of new applications and technologies and their adoption times.

Interesting selection of stuff discovered thru Twitter, eg video games link. It includes one of my posts too, but that's not the reason I'm posting this!

Balanced article: mother and daughter each giving their views on whether or not Facebook is safe. As my wife said, that's like asking if cars are safe to drive.

Web 2.0 Projects Book Deadline Extended. Includes a couple of examples of submissions received so far

Good for exploring the ethical use of science & technology

A good place to start a discussion on the 'efficiency' of technology.

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Interesting article about building a bogging community AND having a life

Interesting article about building a bogging community AND having a life

BESA publishes its annual survey of ICT in UK State Schools....

I will be referring to this and other recently-bookmarked items in an article about science fiction and ICT

"the Three Laws of Robotics"

You don't necessarily have to be a "techie" in order to be able to manage a technical support team effectively. These guidelines explain how.

Notre Dame High School in Sheffield, UK, is planning to allow students to bring their phones and other mobile devices into the classroom. I was pleased to see in this article that Mick Brooks, of the NAHT, is taking a non-Luddite stance on this. Unsuprising: he was one of the panel at the recent launch of the Cambridge Review of the Primary Curriculum, which I wrote about recently (http://www.ictineducation.org/home-page/2009/10/22/what-young-people-can-do-and-7-implications-of-that.html).\nPaul Haigh, the Deputy Head mentioned in the article, and I exchanged messages just after the Handheld Learning Conference, and it's good to see his work being picked up by a national newspaper.

A summary document containing highlighted trend, and headline statistics from BESA's ICT in UK State Schools

Useful starting point for discussion with students