• Digital literacy campaign – Michael Gove’s speech in full

    tags: digital literacy guardian education

    • Education has barely changed
    • I don’t aspire to join that illustrious company by stating on record that this technology or that gadget is going to change the world. Nothing has a shorter shelf-life than the cutting edge
      • Don’t like this use of the word ‘learning’. Can “learning” be disseminated? What he’s talking about is content.
    • technology has the potential to disseminate learning much more widely than ever before.
    • just as technology raises profound questions about how we learn, it also prompts us to think about how we teach.
    • personalising teaching for every pupil
    • technology brings unprecedented opportunities for assessment.
    • We’re not going to tell you what to do
    • By its very nature, new technology is a disruptive force. It innovates, and invents; it flattens hierarchies, and encourages creativity and fresh thinking.
    • put our trust in the professionalism of teachers
    • rather than focusing on hardware or procurement, we are investing in training individuals
    • The disruptive, innovative, creative force of new technology also pushes us to think about the curriculum.
    • That’s why I am announcing today that the Department for Education is opening a consultation on withdrawing the existing National Curriculum Programme of Study for ICT from September this year.
    • The new Computer Science courses will reflect what you all know: that Computer Science is a rigorous, fascinating and intellectually challenging subject.
    • we will certainly consider including Computer Science as an option in the English Baccalaureate
    • In an open-source world, why should we accept that a curriculum is a single, static document? A statement of priorities frozen in time; a blunt instrument landing with a thunk on teachers’ desks and updated only centrally and only infrequently?
    • educational technology
    • showing 3D images of the heart pumping blood through valves, and manipulating, rotating and tilting the heart in real time

  • The Story Collider – Online Magazine

    Online magazine showcasing stories about science and living with science. 

    tags: digital storytelling science podcast

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