When does educate become indoctrinate?
I find the attached clip from a recent BBC UK news item quite bemusing. If it’d been generated by any other group than “Demos” I probably wouldn’t have given it much consideration but the fact...
Monthly Archive: October 2011
Google and your memory
This chart is courtesy of Online Colleges who are linked below. Their blogs are worth taking a look at and they come up with cool graphics like these from time to time. Basically this...
The Authentic Audience
In writing up my position paper (work in progress) ‘Blended Learning in Secondary Schools is a Start in the Right Direction’ I wanted to use the term ‘authentic audience’. My understanding of an...
Computer games help scientists unravel virus strains.
I came across an interesting piece by Ian Steward in The Sunday Star Times which focused on an online game called “Foldit”. “Foldit” is a prime example of digital technology working as an educational medium with...
Photo editing
One of the problems that can happen when we want to upload images off our camera onto the internet is that they are too large. With bigger and better digital camera’s the size of...
