Andrew Brown has had more time to play with the Asus EeePC, on which we gave a video tour last month. He’s started to find a few challenges for using this in a classroom setting.

Thanks to Ewan McIntosh for a link to a Times Online article I’d otherwise have missed concerning Leonard Sax’s book Boys Adrift: The Five Factors* Driving the Growing Epidemic of Unmotivated Boys and Underachieving Young Men
This is a massive field and one upon which I do not feel qualified authoritatively to comment. However, one claim […]

How can we make music on a computer slow down so that we can practise better?
Many students across the country use the commendable repertoire from Rock School’s graded books for the performing components of Standard Grade, Higher and Advanced Higher Music. One of the advantages of the CD which comes with each book is that […]

East Lothian are revealing what goes into a successful adoption of games consoles, this time the Sony PSP, moving beyond the obvious game-playing capacity into cross-curricular uses for the tool. Find out how they’re doing it from ICT Officer Tess Watson.

Thanks to Terry Brown for drawing my attention to Tasmin Little’s latest album of solo violin music entitled The Naked Violin, which she has made available as a free download. In addition to music there are also suggestions for classroom activities, information on each piece and an overview explaining what’s on offer. What I like […]

 By rob
Last December I had the privilege of presenting some notions around the ‘Bebo Boomer’ at the Online Information Conference, the largest information professional conference in the world. I’ve got around to publishing this crammed 20 minutes of ideas, where I wanted to see if business and public service organisations were prepared to harness the […]

EdTechRoundup is a new podcast from an open group of UK educators which I have become involved in.
EdTechRoundup is a place where a group of UK-based educators come together for discussion and collaboration around the use of technology in education. We believe in pedagogically-sound uses of educational technology, but don?t believe in ramming Web 2.0 […]

It’s always nice to have your intuitions nudged in the general direction of scientific fact by reputable specialists. That’s why I was delighted to read on Simon Ager’s excellent blog Omniglot about a new book by Oliver Sacks called Musicophilia.
I’ve long been persuaded by the parallels between music and language so I’ll be very interested […]

Either young people’s sight reading is much better than mine at a similar age, or the blue, moving cursor in Sibelius transports them into a free-style, space-time kind of reading similar to Guitar Hero. It could be that they’re not really sure which beat any given note (and especially syncopation) occupies and, in the context […]

All this week you can take part in the Economist.com’s debate, considering the proposition ‘Social Networking: does it bring positive change to education?’
You can read the PRO, CON and MODERATOR statements, which affect the lot of every young person in Scotland, on the site. Ewan, of this parish, is leading the argument that social networking will […]