A new classification of articles and an invitation to readers to write guest articles.
Having been writing this blog for a little over a year, I thought it might be a good time to review progress and make any course corrections that might be required. Continue reading
So we are all back home after attending the last BETT show to be held at Olympia—and the first in more than a decade to be held without the presence of Becta.
While everyone can accept that Becta did not get everything right, many are reluctant to be critical. They argue that:
Welcome to Ed Tech Now, a blog that aims to challenge orthodox thinking about education technology.
Since the mid-1990s, I have sat on a number of technical and standards committees for learning, education and training, from BESA’s OILS initiative in the mid-1990s, through Becta and DfE working groups, to BSI’s IST/043, and groups at ISO/IEC’s SC36, the IEEE’s LTSC, SALTIS, and the LETSI Foundation.
In common with many of my colleagues in this field, I have been constantly frustrated by our poor progress in developing education technologies that have made a significant impact in improving our education system. Ever since the emergence of the personal computer in the 1970s, people have looked to technology to revolutionise education. So far, that revolution has not happened.
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