Join primary school teacher of over 25 years and lover of creative technology Tim Rylands as he talks to podcaster Dom Graveson about his top ICT tips. Whether you’re looking for ways in which ICT can help you get creative, enhance learning or simply to facilitate your daily life, Tim’s A – Z of ICT [...]
“Friending”, “favouriting”, “IMing” and lost in a world of verbs that barely existed a decade ago, the learners of today are growing up in a time when the online social networking landscape is as comfortable to them as the playground of yore. In an exemplary new learning culture, some teachers are now incorporating these media [...]
One of the most charismatic research scientists of our time will be the inspiration at this year’s SCHOOL FORUM. For the first time, Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology and instigator of the famous “Hole in the Wall” experiment on self-organised learning in the slums of India, will deliver a keynote speech to teachers [...]
After the controversy this year about the potential of the Social Web and, in particular, its use for learning, we ask how valuable online social networking services, such as “Twitter”, can be at an e-learning conference. Is there a demand for more knowledge exchange and networking than there is already among the over 2000 participants [...]
Transforming “Flatland” into an immersive 3D Learning World is the mission of Tony O´Driscoll, virtual worlds expert and Professor of the Practice at Duke University´s Fuqua School of Business. He is profoundly convinced that the demands of globalisation and a new working world with anytime, anyplace work also need an anytime, anyplace educational parallel. OEBookmark
An American psychologist, biologist and broadcaster, Dr Aric Sigman is also the author of the award-winning and controversial book Remotely Controlled: How television is damaging our lives and more recently, The Spoilt Generation: Why restoring authority will make our children and our society happier. Dr Sigman’s talk at the Houses of Parliament, as well as [...]
British academic Russell Stannard, an expert on ICT and language teaching, has produced an extensive range of online videos that demonstrate how to apply technology in teaching. He began by making screen casts with Camtasia of himself using a variety of the most common Web 2.0 tools. These videos became so popular that he launched [...]
