Designing educational technologies with usersA handbook from NESTA FuturelabBy Keri Facer and Ben Williamsonhttp://www.nestafuturelab.org/research/findings/handbooks/02_01.htm“In recent years there has been increasing concern about the apparent estrangement of developers of digital educational resources from those who are intended to use these resources – children, teachers or lecturers. The recent DfES E-Learning Strategy
Monthly Archives: October 2005
An interesting new online story … Inanimate Alice – How Did I Get Here?Episode 1: China The first episode of ‘How Did I Get Here?’ appears on the website of Sensory Perspective ( http://www.sensoryperspective.com ), the developer of the Electrosmog Detector which spotlights the potentially harmful pollution resulting from wireless
Using blogs for learning
More on using blogs for learning “How to use weblogs to create engaging learning experiences” by Maish Nichani This article is part of a 4 wonderful resource from the Australian Flexible Learning Community
A BBC article suggesting English lessons should learn from multimedia (“Schools should take advantage of the range of texts now available to teach the language, including online”) at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4337784.stm led me to a QCA report “A curriculum for the future: subjects consider the challenge” which can be downloaded at http://www.qca.org.uk/14303.html