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These virtual field trips put you and your class right in the centre of the action. They’re real virtual tours and not simply collections of pictures. Some cover acres of land, some a single bone, but all are amazing. See what you think:

First came the book, then the spirit duplicator and the offset printer and the truly revolutionary OHP. The rate of change was rapid by the standards then but glacial by the deluge of change today. Dave Foreshaw reminisces.

Kids in the UK will now be learning to code from 5 years old as part of the new English National Curriculum some feel that it is too focused on the “Computer Science” side of matters and not enough on “Information Technology”.

The coming generation of teachers has positive expectations of educational technology and in particular of learning objects and how they will use them in the classroom

The final post of this three-part series features information about adaptive learning technology and integration with legacy systems.

A job in the the tech sector is one of the highest paid in the USA however American schools are doing a woeful job of preparing kids for it with computer science courses seeing a net decrease in participation over the past 20 years.

A research paper that identified eleven successful ICT strategies. One of these strategies was observed at a primary school and demonstrated highly effective and sustained use of digital video production by students leading to changes in pedagogy and teacher’s roles, heightened learner autonomy as well as improved educational outcomes including increased reflection and metacognition.