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Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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Things Korean seem to please readers of this blog, so I thought I’d share this curious titbit. PR Korea are running a campaign to ask educational publishers to change our geography textbooks to remove what they see as anti-Korean bias. What’s interesting is that they are trying to do it as a student project. For…
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Last week we welcomed Wey Valley School in Dorset as our 400th institutional member of Paperless School. In the same week we passed the milestone of 30,000 student members. Congratulations to both the Paperless School team and the course authors.
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This month, ‘ICT for Education’ magazine awarded us “Secondary Website of the Month”. Their writeup includes a very nice screenshot of our last year’s homepage. Thanks to Mark Leighton (of Dinohunters and the Online ICT Assessment Tool for KS3 fame) for spotting it.
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If you find this as funny as I just did, we can safely say that you’ve got the point of the web.
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Next time you hear somebody complaining that SMS is undermining the morals of our youth (or whatever other Luddite excuse they come up with), just point them to this news story from Yahoo. Apparently, Spain’s new socialist government owes its existence to the ability of SMS and IM to spread the news of official deceit…
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