Her report, treading a delicate line between tighter regulation and better coordinated parental education, will argue that industry and government must do more to provide information to parents on how to set timers on computers, video games and console games. She will propose:
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Simon Critchley | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
Virtual Revolution: Homo Interneticus? | Technology | guardian.co.uk - 10 views
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BBC trailer - sad that for all of you outside the UK you cant get the full programme. "Are we empowered, connected and enlightened with the world's knowledge at our fingertips? Or distracted and addicted with shorter attention spans? Are our skittering brains bombarded and stupified by the 'yuck and wow' of the web? Is the web really changing us - the way we think, the way we behave, the way relate to each other? And is it for better or for worse?"
'Worthless qualifications' give false hope to state pupils, says Harrow head | Educatio... - 4 views
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"The Tories are planning a return to more academically driven schooling, including setting by ability and traditional subject-based classes, if elected this year"
Children's books | Books | guardian.co.uk - 16 views
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Macmillan children's books audio, reviews, quizzes and videos. Worth checking out.
Authors experiment with Twitterfiction | Books | guardian.co.uk - 0 views
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Authors experimenting with writing fiction using Twitter
24 hours in pictures - 0 views
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The Guardian newspaper produces a set of photos from around the world for each day. Many are from the news, while others show far off places and interesting things. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/PSHE%2C+RE%2C+Citizenship%2C+Geography+%26+Environmental
Fear of youth is worse than ever, says says psychologist and TV presenter Tanya Byron |... - 0 views
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We live in an increasingly risk-averse culture, where many children's behaviour is constrained. We raise them and educate them "in captivity" because of our anxieties.
Parents to be shown how to protect children online | Technology | The Guardian - 0 views
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· New codes of practice to regulate social networking sites, such as Bebo and Facebook, including clear standards on privacy and harmful content;· A gold standard for the use of console games, including clear set-up guidance for parents on issues such as pin codes and locks;· Better information for parents on how to block children accessing some websites. Byron has been struck that the technology exists to impose timers and filters, but there has been little take-up, knowledge or development of the technology;
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She will also concede that academic research on the impact of the net on children and their lifestyles is inadequate.
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Warning to parents over children 'being raised online' | Society | The Guardian - 0 views
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British children are spending more than 20 hours a week online, most of it at social networking sites such as MySpace, Facebook and Bebo, and are in effect being "raised online", according to research from the Institute for Public Policy Research.
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Newspaper report of useful UK based study on young peoples use of social networking sites.
Teaching styles in HE: to inform or enlighten? | Higher Education Network | Guardian Pr... - 11 views
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When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom.
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learning communities: places where people came together to learn lessons that were as much about how to live as they were about how to perform a task?
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highly resistant to new forms of scientific and technological knowledge
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"When University College London was founded in the 1820s, the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ridiculed it as a "lecture-bazaar": an institution that imparted information but not wisdom. "
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