A child starts planning the storyboard, while another begins cutting some archived film. Two other classmates seek out some images on the net. Each student in this group, like all those students who attend Islay High School, are using their own Ultra Mobile PC (UMPC), which they bring to and from school to provide a […]

Does your technology make learning better? Does it make assessment better? Does it make learning more enjoyable? These are the key questions asked by Professor Richard Kimbell from Goldsmiths when he’s looking at technology, and he found a problem with all three in e-portfolios. They need to change.
Currently, performance portfolios are created as an end […]

Test your ears on this Scale Ear Trainer which forms part of Ricci Adams excellent theory site. There’s much more to the site than this but, for it to be really useful to pupils, I feel I need to prepare some introductory material to smooth over the differences in UK and US nomenclature.

A few days holiday last month allowed me to catch up with some reading I’d put aside for later. One such blog post concerns the future of the recording industry in the face of technological change.
It is written by Stephen J. Dubner - co-author (along with Steven J Levitt*) of the book Freakonomics - and […]

Cross-posted at edu.blogs.com

Thanks to the kind people at Core-Ed the video and slides of my last ’season’ of talks on how all of us can lead education and technology change in our schools, Local Authorities and organisations have been put online for all to view. There’s also a Google Video without the slides.

Every time I […]

“If they came into my class motivated to learn then I could do anything with them” - Secondary Teacher
The quote implies that the teacher’s job is to motivate so how can we change to create motivatited pupils.
Consider the pupil experience. Following the pupils is like visiting a series of foreign countries… and the pupils cope […]