Interesting developments in the UK ICT curriculum announced by Michael Gove at the 2012 BETT Show.  Touted as ‘open-source curriculum’, the exisiting ICT curriculum will be replaced by a free choice of delivery at all Key Stages The ICT curriculum for schools will be scrapped under proposals by the education [...]

There is a fantastic range of free software availalbe to facilitate creativity. These are just a few of the popular open-source offerings. Audacity is a free, easy-to-use audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems. You can use Audacity to:Record live audio. Cut, copy, [...]

 South Korea, one of the world’s highest-rated education systems, aims to consolidate its position by digitising its entire curriculum. By 2015, it wants to be able to deliver all its curriculum materials in a digital form through computers. The information that would once have been in paper textbooks will be [...]

  Is the biggest classroom in the world the screen in front of you? The screen – whether on a laptop, a tablet, a mobile phone, even that quaint old device a television set – plays a huge part in the lives of young people. When a student protest ended [...]

  The teaching of computer science must become more relevant to modern needs, said the government. The government said the current teaching of IT was “insufficiently rigorous and in need of reform”. The call for change came in a response to an industry report which looked at technology teaching in [...]

COUNT me a technological optimist, but I have always thought that the people who advocate putting computers in classrooms as a way to transform education were well intentioned but wide of the mark. It’s not the problem, and it’s not the answer. Yet as a new school year begins, the [...]

LOS ALTOS, Calif. — The chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to a nine-classroom school here. So do employees of Silicon Valley giants like Google, Apple, Yahoo and Hewlett-Packard. But the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud. Not [...]

  Biology lessons are a distant memory for me but if they had been anything like the one I’ve just sat through at Abbey School in Reading, I think I may have remembered a little more. The pupils were looking at how a chest works, via 3D glasses and a [...]

There was a time when teachers stood in front of the class, with chalk poised on the blackboard while pupils scribbled away furiously. Now teachers’ presentations have to compete with the expectations raised by the technology children have at home – iPods, Playstations and home computers. But they do now [...]