She said it was interrupting their sleep, leaving them too tired to learn. Primary school children needed at least 12 hours’ sleep, she added. (more…)
Cherry Ridgeway, headteacher at Pleckgate High School in Blackburn, said it was hoped that the iPad mini scheme would improve results at the comprehensive by “bridging the gap between the classroom and home study”. (more…)
The study, by researchers at the University of Newcastle, introduced seven interactive tables to lessons in a school over a six-week period to test their impact in classroom conditions. (more…)
This [the curfew] entailed removing her laptop, phone, Game Boy and all other screens from her room after 9pm at night, about an hour before she goes to sleep. The aim was to allow her this hour to think her own thoughts. An hour of interior life. (more…)
Children under five years old have an uncanny knack of knowing how to master new technology. (more…)
Firstly, there is so much available on YouTube and TED – a website offering endless talks on a universe of subjects – that in some ways we are spoilt for choice. Streaming videos can allow us to find suitable speeches, interviews and discussions to suit a whole host of topics and issues, (more…)
Teenager Nick D’Aloisio hit the headlines last month when an app he had developed was bought by Yahoo for millions of pounds.
I interviewed Nick 13 months ago at his home in Wimbledon in south London and it was obvious he came from a successful, wealthy family who had (more…)
When David Jay became frustrated by his inability to find out what was on the school lunch menu, he took action in the way only a technically minded 11-year-old would – he decided to create an app for it. (more…)
Dick Olver, whose firm BAE Systems has shown strong support for the government’s education reforms by being a partner in a new technical school, warned that “something had gone very wrong” in drafting the design and technology curriculum. (more…)
Co-founder Eben Upton, who says his job is like getting paid to play with digital Lego all day, says the Raspberry Pi Foundation initially planned a run of only 10,000 when it was launched in 2009. (more…)
A growing number of books, including The Shallows, argue that the internet and digital gadgets are making it harder for us to concentrate. The Pew Research Centre in America recently surveyed almost 2,500 teachers and found that 77% thought that the internet had a “mostly positive” impact on students’ research work, while 87% felt modern technologies were creating an “easily distracted generation with short attention spans”. (more…)
The $299 (£198) Android device includes learning programs for pupils as well as tools for teachers, allowing them to monitor progress and attendance. (more…)
The Essa Academy says it helps students and has cut costs, including reducing the school’s £80,000 photocopying bill to just £15,000 a year. (more…)
The ‘gamification’ of particular tasks, to incentivise them with game-play rewards, has never been something I’ve been keen on. (more…)
One parent at the 1,400-pupil co-educational, which has academy status, said: ‘This could create a two tier system. (more…)
