The corridor of uncertainty

The year was 1969 and Armstrong and Aldrin were soon to land on the moon using the computing power of the average modern cellphone. My prim...

How often do you simply just sit staring into space, unable to think of anything to do? Or maybe you don't have an iPhone yet. The fact ...

I read a lot of magazines and probably subscribe to one too many; I just can't kick the habit. It means that I seldom get down to readin...

I mentioned recently how hard it is to explain educational technology to friends and family and it's always good to get practical tips o...

Finding a reliable, objective and fair way of quantifying learning is the Eldorado of education. Grades are the standard way of showing how ...

Working with net-based education is fascinating and a never-ending learning process. I often have to revise my views and have no doubt displ...

The UK Council for Child Internet Safety has launched an initiative to introduce compulsory lessons in internet safety for all primary sch...

One of the most prolific urban myths in recent years is that teenagers' cellphone texting is seriously damaging their writing skills. Ta...

My favourite themes at present seem to be multitasking and backchannels and I return to the former once again. New and interesting articles ...

After several recent posts about the pitfalls of back channel communication at conferences I was pleased to find that someone has written a ...

Howard Rheingold is a guy I'd like to meet but until that happens I enjoy watching his video contributions and therefore paste in his l...

Do you have the same problem as I have when people ask what you work with? Explaining distance learning can be hard enough since a lot of pe...

The debate on the misuse of Twitter back channels at conferences continues and I have to mention another good post on the subject from a par...

I read recently that over 90% of all e-mail in the world is spam. Despite this it's still the most popular means of written communicatio...

The use of Twitter to digitally shout down a speaker at the recent Web 2.0 Expo ( see previous post ) has produced a lot of welcome debate ...