High School to allow mobile phones

Last week I was in Sheffield running a training session on ‘m-learning – it doesn’t have to be expensive to be good’ a session in which I look at the cheaper end of m-learning and in particular what we can do with equipment the learning may be owning and carrying – mainly the mobile phone.  [...]

The power of YouTube for creative writing in schools

I picked up a link to this YouTube video from Twitter. This is a poem written by a 15 year old, as part of their school work. This is very, very clever, and this is the sort of creativity and genius, that education so often drives out of people.

Frog – a learning platform that has impressed me

Today I went to visit the people at Frog who had contacted me after one of their staff had read an article on my blog which mentioned their product, and I have to confess that I am very impressed with the system. I went there thinking that Frog was a VLE, but looking at it [...]

School’s limiting staff access to the Internet

I am currently running some staff development at a school in Coventry, and having run a session on some of the wonderful things that can be achieved with the Internet in education, I was informed by the attendees that they are limited to 2 hours of internet access per week.
This to me is ridiculous, as [...]