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 [...]

 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 [...]