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Sphero SPRK+ for Makers Of All Ages
Social Media & The School Curriculum
McAfee’s Digital Divide Survey : Parents in The Dark
McAfee’s Digital Deception Survey
McAfee’s Digital Divide Survey: Parents in the dark
Digital Citizenship & School Curriculum Survey
Do you think Digital Civics should be taught in our schools? A full or half year course for 12-15 year olds that educates students how to be safe and sensible online, and how to understand the impact of their actions on the digital lives?
iPad Addiction or a 4 year old who doesn’t like ‘No’?
joined Will Faulkner on his daily show on Midlands 103FM today to discuss the story of a child in Britain, a 4 year old, who has been treated by the eminent psychiatrist Dr Richard Graham, an expert on technology addiction. I first became aware of Dr Graham's work in 2009, after Sweden’s Youth Care Foundation [Stiftelsen Ungdomsvård] described World of Warcraft as “more addictive than crack cocaine”.
Science, technology and innovation crucial for Africa
Earlier this month, at a meeting Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, the Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Francis Gurry, said policymakers had “a unique opportunity to define the key role that science, technology and innovation can play in achieving the development goals of the African continent.
Teachers & Open-Source : education’s spark
Education’s spark – teachers with tech
Russia plans wiki-based, history school texts
BBC learning – fill lunchtimes with language.
Scanning through available lessons in the language section shows that you can learn French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian and Portuguese with crucial phrases available in 40 other languages. In addition to languages and subjects like Personal Development, there are GCSE Bitesize revisions and an entire Class Clips tool for teachers with 7,500 clips from BBC Television to show in the classroom - a gift for educators in this era of tablet learning in schools.
