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New website
Web 2.0 Projects Book Deadline Extended
I've had a great response to my
call for submissions to this ebook, which seeks to collate information
about interesting projects involving the use of Web 2.0 applications in
schools.
The original deadline was 30
September, but last night I received some news which has led me to
extend it until the 31st October.
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Web 2.0 Projects Book Deadline Extended
Web 2.0 projects book
"educational technology"
"ICT in Education"
Thu, 1 Oct 2009, 15:26
New website
Tenacity: a good quality or a bad one?
One of the qualities
that a subject leader must have, in my opinion, is the ability and
willingness to stand one's ground. I think that this applies especially
in the case of the ICT (or educational technology) leader, given the
sorts of pressure he or she is often under.
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Tenacity
leadership qualities
ICT leadershiip
"educational technology"
"ICT in Education"
Tue, 22 Sep 2009, 09:38
New website
What makes a good teacher as far as technology is concerned?

I'm interested in exploring this
question, which I have phrased very carefully. I think
whether you're a teacher of information
and communications technology, or someone who teaches
with educational technology, there are
some common denominators of what makes the teaching good.
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good technology teachers
good ICT teachers
good educational technology teachers
"educational technology"
"ICT in Education"
Thu, 9 Jul 2009, 10:08
New website
The tyranny of relevance
In a recent address called 'What
is education for?' to the Royal Society of
Arts, Michael
Gove bemoaned the fact that there is no government department
in the UK whose sole remit is the pursuit of educational standards.
According to Gove, education is not regarded as a good
enough end in itself, but as something which can help to achieve some
other goal.
In his exposition of his views in
favour of liberal education, he used the term 'the tyranny of
relevance'. Although he wasn’t talking about Information and
Communications Technology (ICT), this phrase did strike a chord with
me. In the continuing debate over whether ICT should be taught as a
subject in its own right, is there perhaps too much store set by
'relevance'?
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Michael Gove
The tyranny of relevance
discrete ICT
"educational technology"
"ICT in Education"
Thu, 2 Jul 2009, 15:29
New website
Making ICT more interesting: 5 suggestions
It’s an unfortunate fact that the issues I raised in my book ‘Go on, bore ‘em: how to make ICT lessons excruciatingly dull’ are still relevant today.
This has been clearly demonstrated in our interview with Edith, a 14 year-old, recently, and it’s also apparent from emails and other messages I receive. So what can be done about it?
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making ICT interesting
teaching ICT
Naace09
"educational technology"
"ICT in Education"
Fri, 29 May 2009, 10:46
New website
Are you only teaching the kids how to drill holes?
Drilling holes? What’s that got to do with ICT? Possibly quite a bit….
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reasons for using ICT
why use ICT
Naace
"educational technology"
"ICT in Education"
Thu, 28 May 2009, 06:32
New website
Seven reasons to have an educational technology library in school
In my many visits to schools I have
rarely seen a book library which has been built up and maintained by
the teachers resposible for ICT, or educational technology as it is
known in the USA.
There are several compelling reasons
for starting such an enterprise.
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subject library
ICT library
departmental library
"educational technology"
"ICT in Education"
Mon, 18 May 2009, 12:56