Advanced networks and school 'loops'. Ultra-fast, fibre-based networks have been supporting education in many parts of the world for a number of years already – and finally schools and education ins...
In order to grapple with what seems to be an over use of testing, we need to think of assessment as information. The more information we have about students, the clearer the picture we have about achi...
Learning to be safe and to keep others safe, to be respectful and act appropriately with information in an online world is as important to young people now as teaching them the road-code and how to ke...
rom a teaching and learning perspective, ubiquitous computing enables us to think about availability of virtual mentors or teachers, and/or opportunities for peer to peer and self-paced, deeper learni...
Digital literacy refers specifically to the range of skills, knowledge and competencies required to operate effectively in a world immersed in digital technologies. Digital literacy is becoming more i...
A simple way of thinking about cloud computing is to consider the idea of moving all the physical servers and applications that are located inside a school into a hosted environment outside the organi...
There are now more hand-helds sold world-side every year than desktops, and in New Zealand there are now more mobile phones sold than the size of our population! The relative ubiquity of the hand-held...
Our education is no longer confined to the school we live in - we can access courses/subjects from almost anywhere and at any time. The world is our classroom! Global connectivity now enables student ...
Perhaps the greatest change in schools today is not the integration of technology, not the way classrooms are being built, not even the changes in curriculum and assessment, but that the role of the t...
Digital technologies are creating increasing opportunity for learners to become content creators instead of simply content consumers. Ease of development of content in rich, multimedia forms as well a...