Change “Music” to “Schools” and…

Author: tom | 29 December 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: Assembly Lyin', Flat World Education

It’s no secret that the music industry has played hardball with users of filesharing networks. Leaders in the field worked hard to ignore the fact that those who swapped files via BitTorrent were also the greatest purchasers of music. Now it seems that Big Music may be crumbing just like the Berlin Wall, [...]

“Big Mother” as Cognitive Tutor

Author: tom | 08 April 2007 | 1 Comment
Categories: Assembly Lyin', Big Mother, Crumbware, New Permutations

In my last post, I suggested that education would do well to mine the wealth of information that can be derived from digitally tracking student movements. A lot can be learned through amassed patterns of student use within software virtual environments and actual physical environs. Today Education Week reports about a New Breed of [...]

Getting Serious about Play

Author: tom | 19 December 2006 | No Comments
Categories: A New 3Rs, Assembly Lyin'

It seems Scotland public schools are in for an overhaul according to a recent BBC News article, School lessons to focus on play.
Schools will still use traditional methods when necessary to teach pupils to read, write and count. But the Scottish Executive also wants teachers to use play-based techniques.
Isn’t this a refreshing change?  I [...]