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 [...]

  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 [...]