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 […]

Adam kicks off a roundup of a superb event in Aberdeenshire to get its teachers (and students) motivated through new technologies, including some interesting world-breaking uses of Glow. Tim Rylands, one of the keynote presenters, gives his own take and some of the background of his long-term involvement with the Authority. Martin provides more coverage […]

Gaming technology offers many new ways in to getting young people engaged with history, geography, language… Musselburgh Grammar School’s PE department has seen that there could be promise in getting young people fit through their lunchtime Wii sessions. Unfortunately, it’s only for S1 and S2 students. Quite how Mr Bray’s going to get in is […]

Tanya Byron’s report for the Prime Minister on children, games and the net is, as yet, nowhere to be seen on the web. However, you can find out a bit more about the report and catch up with this morning’s news reports, interviews, blog and newspaper reactions.

A newly discovered blog from West Lothian led me to a newly discovered project written by the brother of an old(ish) aquaintance, and whose company is also doing some interesting work for Channel 4. If this is a sign of things to come, then we’re certainly advising the right thing on the C4 Education Board.

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Here is the full, uncut text of the research report by Robert Hart, Director of Research at Intuitive Media, which was featured in issue 20 of Connected Magazine. Drawing on the results of a research project into how online connectivity is changing children’s lives, Robert shares the story of Emily Sanderson.

The human species is evolving […]

It’s fun to see that the blogging system Learning and Teaching Scotland worked with East Lothian Council to build is now being used to document the LTS Consolarium’s PSP trial taking place in Campie Primary School. It shows once again how having the tools available, having the encouragement in place, and students and teachers who […]

In the light of some more work being done as a result of workshops elsewhere, I’m happy to have been able to update my previous blog posts on:

Thinking Out Of The (X)Box: Creative writing through computer games.
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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.