Connected 21 is now online with articles and features on literacy, Gaelic, PE and computer games.
http://www.ltscotland.org.uk/connected/articles/21/index.asp

Between June 9-13 you have the opportunity to help young poets from Georgia and Glasgow’s East End with their poetry. In On The Street Where You Live, young poets will write about their neighbourhoods (or should that be neighborhoods?), and you are invited to leave your two stars and a wish comments to help them […]

Sometimes it’s the really obvious things that are the hardest to spot… and the first we should change… Following a fascinating chat with a very bright teacher I’ve realised that there’s a strong case for making some changes to the way we approach ‘punishments’.
Every now and again, I have to supervise ‘detention’. I sit in […]

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 […]

Is it possible to use a blog to genuinely bring history to life? The answer is a resounding yes as this imaginative blog ably demonstrates.
As many of you may know, as well as being an advocate for all things Web2.0 I’m also a keen student of the Great War. As such, you can probably guess […]

When we talk about social networking, are we sending out the right signals? At the Thinkuknow training session in Perth this month I was struck by how much we tend to emphasis the dangers whilst barely acknowledging the benefits.
The Thinkuknow training session in Perth last night started by covering some of the same ground as […]

Since launching earlier this week the Student 2.0 blog has really pulled in the crowds. Sean is one of the eight highly readable and thought-provoking students having his say on education, and he’s from Perth, Scotland! Until now he had been publishing his thoughts on his own blog, but is now getting an even greater […]

Aware that stories which support one’s existing beliefs leap off the page, while others remain comparatively static, I was nevertheless heartened to see the quote in this story from a blog I discovered today. The blog is an offshoot of a magnificent website put together by Simon Ager.
Cross-posted to Alan Coady’s Musical Blog