Dick Sblog

“Their Space: Education for a digital generation” draws on qualitative research with children and polling of parents to counter the myths obscuring the true value of digital media.
This is a report worth reading. It made my pulse quicken at the recognition that kids’ use of a wide range of technologies is providing so much opportunity [...]

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Check out the article in eGuardian, “A year of bad press and security concerns means the educational potential of social networking sites remains largely untapped” – spot on! Schools block them, for all sorts of reasons. Shouldn’t we be educating kids to use social networking for learning, rather than panicking and blocking them? Then, in [...]

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In Stephen Heppell’s piece in The Guardian of Jan 9th he makes an eloquent appeal, “Having already spoken to some of the children I know that many innovations in tomorrow’s learning will come directly from them and from their extraordinary, ingenious young teachers. But please, please, please will someone allow them the freedom and space [...]

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The European Schoolnet’s Insafe team (www.saferinternet.org) has launched a new tool for children to evaluate their online behaviour and receive appropriate safety advice based on their choices. The data gathered from this tool will be compiled into a report on children’s internet habits.

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DeltaScan: The Future of Science and Technology, 2005-2055: New Technologies for cooperation suggests that these new technologies and a better understanding of cooperative strategies may create a new capacity for rapid, ad hoc, and distributed decision making. The article provides an outlook in which a range of nascent technologies and practices may come together in [...]

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