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December 6, 2012

How to choose the right tablet?

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With the holiday season upon us, it is without a doubt that a tablet (be it Apple or Android) would be at the top of many […]

December 6, 2012

Samsung Galaxy Note II and 10.1 Bringing Back the Stylus

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Remember the days of Palm, Handspring Visor, Sony CLIÉ and Apple Newton, apart from being obsolete they had one thing in common and that was the little plastic stylus. […]

November 30, 2012

OECD PISA: What the Results Fail to Tell You

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Whenever I think of how the developed countries, particularly the UK and the USA got their ‘knickers in a twist’ over the last PISA results, with […]

November 29, 2012

Brain Infographic

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When have we ever taken the time to appreciate the very thing that make us who we are? I don’t mean our physical looks, the colour […]

November 28, 2012

Tutoring Good or Bad…

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Tutoring Good or Bad… Possibly depends on where you are in the world As I read this BBC article (Meet the ‘tutor kings and queens’) yesterday, […]

November 23, 2012

Where the Learning Revolution Takes Place – Facilitating Knowledge

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So much has been said about embedding technology in to education, about how technology will revolutionise teaching. The truth is technology on its own does little.

November 22, 2012

The Adoption Model for Technology and VLE

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The Adoption Model below looks at the 5 stages of Teaching with Technology and the Future of Digital Teaching.

November 22, 2012

Using Pinterest for Education

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The web as we all know it, is overcrowded with tools and services with the potential for making teaching and learning more exciting, engaging and fun. […]

Future of Digital Teaching - VLE Adoption Model

November 21, 2012

Potential and Promise – the Future of Digital Teaching

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A BBC article (Costly hi-tech kit lies unused in schools, says study) recently highlighted the findings of a report Decoding Learning by Nesta (National Endowment for Science, Technology […]