Every January, just four months into the current Laptops4Learning programme, our E-Resource Manager and I began planning, researching and procuring test devices for the start of the next academic year. Each year we remind ourselves, it is not about the …
Back in July, just as the IPad sales were impressing the stockmarket, I speculated that tablet devices might find their way into education by 2015 replacing netbooks as the preferred learning device. Cost and durability the most obvious stalling concerns. …
I orginally drafted this post back in March when we were finalising our procurement. It was important that we got all our information confirmed before I posted it, I then duly forgot it was in DRAFT. (Incidentally thats the not …
This evening I connected my Windows Skydrive to a mapped location on my home PC. With yet another excellent ‘HOW TO’ resource from the Super Site for Windows it was simple. The writer behind this fantastic all things Microsoft site is …
Hamble College started tracking netbook developments in 2008 following the launch of the Asus EEEPC the previous year. After a small scale pilot with 20 Toshiba NB100s in 2009 and a very reassuring visits to Arnewood School and Perins School …
Part of the LftM Learning Journey, is a ‘Focus’ document. In making the paper decision, I have tried to reflect on the advice from my LftM coach yet be realistic about the time I wish to invest in Lftm (given …
Intel, asked 2,700 teachers from 15 countries about technology in their schools. While 98% felt that technology was critical in preparing pupils for the workforce, three quarters also thought governments were not doing enough. 70% of teachers thought children should be …
In most schools, students are over 92% of the people in the system, and they are certainly the ones most affected by any change. Yet we often overlook them when we plan and implement visionary efforts like going 1:1. This …
