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Author: Ian Grove-Stephensen
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I don’t have it in for iPods, or Apple, or Samsung, honest, but something about this news item really brought me up short. Samsung are investing $33Bn in new factories to build memory chips. According to these articles (1)(2)(3), those chips are soon to arrive in an iPod near you. Apple, it is said, has…
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Over at Wikitextbook, Steve is introducing compulsory registration. The idea is to encourage students to fully participate in the wiki as a group project, by assessing their individual contributions. An interesting aspect is that wiki users tend to spontaneously adopt different roles – creator, editor, provocateur and so forth – and by checking the history…
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CHASE is the Cambridge Association of Hi-tech Entrepreneurs and they have invited me to present on Chalkface on Tuesday 4th Oct. Details. The event is open to non-members and of course I would be delighted to see you there. That’s our second mention in Cambridge Network this week. Here’s the other. Shame they missed the…
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My thanks to Andrew Field and his Year 7 ICT class at Neale-Wade for some fascinating classroom observation yesterday. Some issues that came out of the visit, in no particular order: Why are school ICT networks so hard for children to use? At every school I visit, I see some children unable to use some…
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Yacapaca reached a very significant milestone last night. For the first time, somebody thought it was worthwhile nicking stuff off it. Well, not nicking, strictly speaking. Somebody who’d had a free 100-unit subscription and used it up, set up a second free sub via the new self-signup page and moved all her student records across,…
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