This week I acquired a Kindle and have begun to read my first e-book on it, and so I’m venturing into thinking about how an e-book reader might be used in education. I do not want to get into arguments about whether I have chosen the right e-book...

This YouTube video talks about the world in 2025. The link if you can’t play the video in screen. It asks some pertinent questions that affect all of us in the education business: will there be classrooms? will there be libraries? will...

Last week I wrote about iPods in education in Australia with a number of examples of how teachers are using them. As Lorraine Cairns from Dookie Primary School in Victoria says, the key factor is the way students engage with the technology. Here is...

Talking with a few former colleagues recently who were musing about the ‘good ol’ days ‘when teachers were more valued’. I think they were referring to the 60’s and early 70’s but I can’t be sure and don’t remember myself!!. What we do...

How far do you walk each day? Could you walk from Darwin to Melbourne? That’s a touch over 6,000 km if you walk mainly around the edge. On August 18th, 2000, at 9:00 am, Jean Béliveau left Montreal, Canada. His goal is to walk around the planet to...