All change in England and Wales: the new secondary curriculum, and its implications for ICT

On the 22^nd November 2007 I attended a seminar called “Secondary Curriculum – Evolution and Innovation”.

Educational ICT was not a particular focus of the event, which was more general in scope. But I think there are lessons that the educational ICT teacher or subject leader can learn from what was said.
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Save Kids' TV

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Perhaps it’s just me, but I think there is a tendency for those of us involved in educational technology matters sometimes to forget that children watch broadcast television too.

Last week I attended a Westminster Media Forum event on the future of Children’s TV programming in the UK. Whilst I have not had enough time to cogitate fully on the information received, I thought I’d report on it anyway because there is a consultation in progress, the deadline for which is the 20^th of December.

What's going on provides an interesting example of one of the manifestations of the "long tail" phenomenon.

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Computers in Classrooms: December 2008 edition

UPDATED In this extended edition we have news and views from around the world, and contributions from Peggy George, Fiona Aubrey-Smith and Dai Barnes.

Articles featured:

• All change in England and Wales: the new secondary curriculum
  
  
• Just how much knowledge should a teacher have?
  
  
• Social networking from a teen’s perspective ( updated stats)
  
  
• Save kids’ TV
  
  
• The personal optimized learning environment
  
  
• Features of outstanding ICT lessons
  
  
• Boring the kids into submission
  
  
• An educational computing conference with a difference
  
  
• Some thoughts about NECC.

An interview with Natalie Shukla

Natalie Shukla

Natalie is the Producer of the Westminster Education Forum, an organisation which organises seminars on issues pertinent to the education profession in the UK.

So what makes the Forum "tick", and how influential is it? We discuss these issues and others, such as the IT skills required by school leavers these days.

And what is the big issue as far as teachers are concerned?
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