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Entries from July 2009

The act of digital lobotomy

July 18th, 2009 No Comments

Hugh D’Andrade‘s article on the Electronic Frontier Foundations web site, Orwell in 2009: Dystopian Rights Management, shows how Amazon have fulfilled in part the provocative predictions made by Mark Pilgrim in his blog in November 2007 The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts). In the sixth act, ‘Act VI: The act of learning’ [...]

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PhD / Masters opportunities with University of Bolton

July 15th, 2009 No Comments

I have been working part-time in the Institute for Educational Cybernetics (IEC) at the University of Bolton for the last two years, after seventeen years at Ultralab. IEC houses three major projects: •    the JISC Innovation Support Centre for Educational Technology & Interoperability Studies (CETIS); •    the Inter-Disciplinary Inquiry-Based Learning project creating innovative higher degree [...]

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Opting for innovation

July 14th, 2009 1 Comment

Just read Paul Haigh’s blog on opting-out of Building Schools for the Future ICT , in which he speaks of the injustice for leading & innovating schools – “The DCSF will say there is a fair procedure in place for schools who feel the way we do- they have 42 days to produce an Alternative [...]

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