Today's Fresh Blogs...

• Technology redefines talents

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:57 am

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Digital Divide, Socialisation, Yong Zhao, Assessment, Blc07, China, Economy, Future, Globalisation, Globalization, Mcdonalds, Starbucks

  High Definition television is great, an advancement in technology that makes multimedia seem even more real. But it's also redefining who is going to be a television star, as some personalities become unusable when every pore can be seen - hi def becomes dicey. The industrial revolution made Herbert Spencer in 1859 design an American school

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• Keeping education moving in a war zone

  Published: July 20, 2007, 9:38 am

  Tags: Blc07, Digital Divide, Glowscotland, Blc07, Glowscotland, Israel

  Har V'Gai school is set in the midst of the border with Lebanon, and owned by 12 villages. 1200 students attend, half from rural settings and half from the cities. Despite learning in a long-term, protracted period of crisis learning has continued to flourish. Dr James Backer explains how. The Israeli youth is an incredibly connected one, with

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• Marco Torres @ BLC: Products of passion

  Published: July 19, 2007, 2:46 pm

  Tags: Blc07, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Marco Torres, San Fernando, Blc07

  Marco teaches in a school with 5000 students, with 40% staff turnover in two years in San Fernando, and captures his students' minds with multimedia to get them thinking about storytelling, telling their stories, the stories that are important to them, and studying the science of decision-making. Their films are incredible. Communication:A two

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 4:42 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  educators wanting to plan digital literacy into their work. So, if you are a teacher in a UK or Irish school, the latter a country where Bebo has 95% penetration in the teen market, don't hang about for Bebo. You need to start thinking about how you are going to educate your students in the art of self-publishing without signing away their

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• UK and Irish schools need to educate, not ban, now

  Published: August 13, 2007, 2:47 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Ltsfutures, Rss, Safety, Security, Socialisation, Edubuzz, Digital Literacy, Internet Safety, Bebo, Facebook, Literacy, Safety

  educators wanting to plan digital literacy into their work. So, if you are a teacher in a UK or Irish school, the latter a country where Bebo has 95% penetration in the teen market, don't hang about for Bebo. You need to start thinking about how you are going to educate your students in the art of self-publishing without signing away their

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• The cult of the amateur and how internet changes our culture

  Published: September 4, 2007, 6:12 am

  Tags: Collaborative Learning, Digital Divide, Socialisation, Weblogs, Andrew Keen, Dave Weinberger, Mick Fealty, Slugger O Toole, You Yours, Bbc, Radio 4

  There, folks, is the real digital divide. (Oh, sod it. Go and read Dave Weinberger for a much more, well, expert argument around the Cult Of The Amateur.)

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• We can't teach the new literacies soon enough

  Published: September 26, 2007, 11:26 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Socialisation, Bebo, Digital Literacy, Facebook, Myspace, Tennis

  Cross-posted at ConnectedLive. This morning's news reports tell us enough is enough. If a pair of Britain's young sporting hopefuls can lose all their funding in one fell swoop after doing what millions of other kids do on a daily basis, then what are the consequences for our kids when they reach the world of 'professionalism' too? The

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• Africa: Reclaiming Heritage in Cyberspace

  Published: October 11, 2007, 8:22 pm

  Tags: Africa, Culture, Digital Divide, Languages, Representation

  So, with all the excitement about Second Life, blogging, .net and Web 2.0 one might just lose balance or get a little dizzy at first upon read more

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• Keynote: Harnessing The Leading Edge Of Technology

  Published: October 20, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Assessment, Audience, Constructivism, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Gaming, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Reboot9, Ulearn07, Weblogs, Wiki, Education, Ewan Mcintosh, Keynote, Leadership, Presentation, Ulearn07

  Thanks to the kind people at Core-Ed the video and slides of my last 'season' of talks on how all of us can lead education and technology change in our schools, Local Authorities and organisations have been put online for all to view. There's also a Google Video without the slides. Every time I do a talk or seminar it's different; in the age

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• I feel grown up now

  Published: October 23, 2007, 10:25 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, World Of Ewan

  loan. We talk about the digital divide created in our more underprivileged areas, but rarely do we talk about the problems our relatively middle classes have, the types of folk who, well, come from a few generations' worth of teachers and become teachers themselves. This month saw me buy my very own brand new computer for the first time

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• Bass Player's Blog: the 16-year-old education expert

  Published: October 24, 2007, 3:38 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Digital Video Animation, Socialisation, Digital Divide, Pedagogy, Teachers, Ulearn07, Youtube

  Over the past few months I have been indebted to my key education expert, The Bass Player, for his (not frequent enough) insights to why teachers aren't doing some things they probably should. We're told that educational conferences tell us everything the kids under our noses could be telling us; here's a sixteen-year-old doing just that.

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• Misquote and innuendo

  Published: October 25, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Digital Divide

  Herald on Sunday : Cyberbullying    Originally uploaded by cx1uk Newspaper stories like this one always have a way of condensing information to the bare essentials, occasionally condensing the sense out of complex situations. Simplistication instead of simplification if you will. I let it lie, but it's cropped up in

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• Some journos need their own digi lit course

  Published: October 31, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Digital Divide

  it's not the kids who need digital literacy courses, but some of the journalists who've apparently made the grade to write in their own paper. Thank goodness we don't need to own our own newspaper to put the record straight or get our views printed.

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• Uruguay buys first ‘$100 laptops’

  Published: November 1, 2007, 11:10 am

  Tags: Software, Business, Digital Divide

  software, Business,

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• Ewan in Derbyshire on Media Lit, Visual Storytelling

  Published: November 15, 2007, 11:08 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Gaming, Images, Leadership Amp Management, Media Literacy, Socialisation, World Of Ewan

  I've been reading the superb Henry Jenkins and some of his wonderful points in a recent paper, if not a little too complex to get across in one small talk, were included in this teacher's small talk this morning - and contributed to my wee overrun (wrist duly slapped). The main thrust of what I was saying can be seen in video from my New

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