By Natascha Chtena. Amidst reports of Steve Jobs and other Silicon Valley CEOs imposing extremely strict technology rules on their children, the debate around technology use in the classroom has caught fire once again. One of the strongest arguments for banning technology in the classroom came earlier this fall, from media pundit Clay Shirky in a piece titled “Why I Just Asked My Students To Put Their Laptops Away.” Read more...
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'Digital is the missing link in higher education'
By Ian Dunn. In a decade where business and the media have been transformed by digital technologies, higher education can feel stuck in the lecture hall. More...
Today is Cyber Monday. And so is tomorrow and the next day and the next…
By Andrew Wyckoff. Today is Cyber Monday – although the term is less than ten years old, so you may not have even known it. Like its better known cousin ‘Black Friday’, ‘Cyber Monday’ is a marketing term to mark the kick-off of the holiday shopping season, right after Thanksgiving, in the US. Unlike Black Friday though, Cyber Monday is all about e-commerce: the New York Times sanctified the term in 2005, with the observation that “millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what they liked.” More...
Start warming up your fingers, the Hour of Code is coming!
Tens of millions of students around the world will take to their keyboards for an Hour of Code next week. December 8-14 is Computer Science Education Week, and the goal is to have as many people as possible spend (at least) one hour learning the basics of code.
The Hour of Code is a one-hour introduction to computer science. You would be surprised at how much you can learn in just one hour! The movement is organized by Hour of code, where a number of tutorials are available for anyone who wants to try their hand at programming. More...
6 Myths of Digital Technology
By Mark Anderson. I cannot take credit for these 6 myths of digital technology – I’m lifting them straight from what I thought was a well known and received investigation in to the impact of digital technology on education. It would appear that a lot of the research however is not well known and in an attempt to do for others as I do for my students in terms of making the implicit explicit; this marks the first of a series of posts which will look in to the evidence behind digital technology and its links to learning. In this post I will be looking at an investigation undertaken by Professor Steven Higgins, ZhiMin Xiao and Maria Katsipataki from the School of Education at Durham University, published for the Education Endowment Foundation.
To summarise their findings, as I’ve mentioned before, it’s not about technology, it’s about pedagogy. They also state very clearly that “the use of technology needs to be informed by context and research“. Hear hear. More...
Les éditeurs de logiciels européens en perte de vitesse
A lire sur lesechos.fr, un billet sur la situation financière des éditeurs de logiciels français et européens à l'occasion de la 9ème édition du "Truffle 100 Europe", le palmarès des 100 premiers acteurs du secteur.
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Evénement > Cloud computing world expo, le rendez-vous des acteurs du cloud
Le 1er et 2 avril 2015 se tiendra au CNIT Paris La Défense le rendez-vous dédié au cloud computing et à l’accompagnement des DSI dans la mise en œuvre de ce type de stratégie. Des tests des derniers matériels et logiciels à destination des datacenters seront proposés.
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