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 [...]