By putting the world’s library at our fingertips, search engines have revolutionised our lives, and both changed and challenged the nature and purpose of education. Why should I clutter my brain with information that is readily available from reference sources? – Albert Einstein. But the search companies have scarcely scratched the surface of what search…

If you’ve ever opened a brand new textbook to find an erratum slip, you will already be familiar with one of the core problems of book publishing. Once printed, your content is set in stone. Get on the web, problem goes away. Find an error tonight, it’s changed by morning. But what about things that…

Exactly one month ago today, I enjoyed a lengthy chinwag with Steve Margetts about wikis in education. Having set the world to rights, and (perhaps rashly) promised Steve free hosting, I blogged the conversation and forgot all about it. Steve didn’t. He got busy, and exactly four weeks later I find WikiTextbook has sprouted, beanstalk-like,…

Early on in the rollout of Paperless School we discovered that if you want good, accurate bug reports from students, it’s best to get them to tell you directly rather than report via their teacher. It doesn’t always work out quite as expected, though. This is from today’s log, with personal details anonymised … Report…

This morning, Google Alerts tells me Chalkface is now defined in Encarta. No mention of us specifically of course, but nonetheless a nice little stroke to my ego to start the day. U.K. education teaching in a classroom: teaching in a classroom, as distinct from the other duties of a teacher ( informal ) [Modeled…