Dick Sblog

Think about this, a quote from e-Skills uk, the Sector Skills Council, “9 out of 10 new jobs demand ICT skills and employers need their staff to have increasingly high levels of IT user skills. Yet 40% of today’s ICT users have received no IT training at all. This is at a time with organisations [...]

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check out stephen hepple’s eloquent advocacy of the ‘c’ in ict in his recent contribution to the guardian’s education suppliment. Hear Hear!
but my observation is that the way in which people get to grips with new internet based technologies is through a process of play not under the pressure of work. people learn to [...]

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Collaboration takes many forms. Take a look at WebPlay. This is a great project providing kids with the chance to understand the whole production process for a play, including writing and performing one themselves. OK, lots of school projects cover the same ground, that’s true. However, WebPlay gets the participating classes to work online with [...]

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yesterday I attended a GlobalWatch event, reporting on the outcomes of a Mission to the U.S., looking at e-learning. It was a useful and interesting meeting with some good speakers. reassuringly, they had concluded that the UK isn’t behind the U.S. in this field and, in many cases, is well ahead in the sophistication and [...]

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