The Ipad Phenonemon

More and more schools are adopting the Ipad as their preferred 1-1 tool going forward, some in the Ipad trolley model I talked about earlier and some taking the decision to replace their traditional (how funny that sounds now) notebook program with an Ipad 1-1 program. It seems to be particularly happening in Queensland for [...]

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Ipad 2

Okay, I admit it, I want one. I’ve been hanging  out for the duration of the Ipad based on the sage advice of many tech-head friends who proclaim solemnly; ‘thou shalt not buy version 1 of any Apple product’. And I listened. And in a couple of weeks I’m going to be grabbing version 2, [...]

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Excuses, Excuses

What Are Our Excuses, Again, For Not Putting Computers in the Hands of Our Children? So began Scott McLeod’s blog post today which was backed up by an inspiring Ted Talk video about kids learning from each other. I couldn’t agree more that, with the price of powerful computing coming down and down we’re still [...]

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The Education Revolution

Video promoting the NSW component of the ‘Digital Revolution’, the 1-1 notebook (or netbook) program. NSW, which originally seemed unenthusiastic about the Federal Government’s plans to give each student a computer (where’s the infrastructure) seems committed now. Scott McLeod calls it a great idea in his recent blog post, and it’s hard to argue with [...]

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