At last! Someone’ in government has done something sensible.

You’ve probably seen the brouhaha about Apple’s newly-lauched iPhone. When you first look at it may be tempted to dismiss it as an over-priced, over-hyped MP3+phone combo, and wonder how long it will be before you get to confiscate one. But you will be wrong. It is the iPhone, not Windows Vista, not even the…

Alarmingly, there may be no sector of society [other than education] where technology has had less impact. Dan Kinnaman (via Doug). It’s absolutely true. In the business world I see paper, telephones, even offices becoming redundant as we find we can do things more efficiently online. In schools, I see classrooms largely unchanged since my…

There is a saying in Spanish El hombre es el ùnico animal que tropieza con la misma piedra dos veces: “humans are the only animals that will trip over the same rock twice”. Thanks Alex for the link.

There’s a group on photo-sharing site Flickr dedicated to teasing each other with mystery objects. Here is my contribution. If you don’t know the answer yourself, get a D&T teacher to help you. If you’re not a Flickr member, feel free to leave your guess in the comments here. Click to enlarge