Digital Curriculum - Their Space
The way young people use technology outside school is changing and so are the ways they learn. This project, funded by the NCSL, aims to explore how schools should respond to children's informal learning with digital media such as games consoles, the internet and mobile phones.
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- Pupils get revision help by text Pupils at a school in Buckinghamshire have been getting extra help with GCSE revision by texting their teachers. from : mollywebb 28th June 2006
- Australian Teachers Encourage Gaming A small but growing number of teachers across Australia are using computer games, and simulation programs, as educational tools. from : celiahannon 17th July 2006
- Cornwallis Technology College Cornwallis technology college have just been awarded the new ICT mark by Becta for using ICT to support all learners and all school activities from : hannahgreen 9th August 2006
- Children and Young People's Home Use of ICT for Educational Purposes:The Impact on Attainment Report by Professor Gill Valentine, Dr Jackie March and Professor Charles Pattie that explores the links between children's educational use of ICT at home and their performance and attainment at school. Based on research conducted in the summer term 2004, in 12 schools. from : hannahgreen 9th August 2006
- TDA futures - teaching 2012 The TDA ran 9 regional seminars to bring together practitioners from across England to consider the future of their work in an intellectually structured session - this is the result from : hannahgreen 14th August 2006
- Reimagining Higher Education Thinking about the future of higher education in the context of the Long Tail, the Play Ethic and Cradle to Cradle sustainability from : hannahgreen 15th August 2006
- Joining up the dots The more we find about young people's changing relationship with digital media the more questions this raises about their future as students and employees. Just as some schools find it difficult to capitalise on the creative and technological skills of many of their pupils, so organisations risk overlooking the new skills of young graduates. As the recent Demos publication Working Progress demonstrated, employers think new graduates are arriving without with the skills needed to navigate the... from : celiahannon 30th August 2006
- TV gets left behind as kids head for the web A new survey has shown that two thirds of kids spend more time online than watching TV. More than half use Social Networking sites every week. from : celiahannon 1st September 2006
- Their Space Podcast It's the seventh Demos podcast, and the first of 2007. It sees Hannah and Celia talking about the report Their Space: Education for a Digital Generation. The project, funded by the National College for School Leadership, explores the skills that young people are learning through their use of new technologies and makes suggestions for how schools and policy makers should respond.You can listen in by downloading the mp3 file here, or by subscribing to the podcast feed here. Or, the audio should... from : hannahgreen 4th January 2007
- schools and social networking The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released the overview of their latest study on teens' usage of social network sites. As danah boyd comments, most of the data is not surprising, but it is interesting. Here are some of the key findings: from : hannahgreen 10th January 2007