“Get out of the way”

Craig Newmark from his Wikipedia entry.

You probably haven’t heard of “Craigslist” if you don’t live in the USA. Essentially it is the small ads website that has killed all other small ads websites. In addition it has performed the small feat of killing all private and most property advertising in US newspapers. The internet entrepreneur [...]

The REAL danger of the internet in schools

From ali3n_oz’s Flickr page (creative commons) site.

The world is moving too fast for schools to respond appropriately. I am referring to the relatively new challenge of the internet of course; this has become a real battleground of new thinking and old responses. No one would deny the huge influence and importance of the internet, however, [...]

More fun please

From http://duhas-blog.blogspot.com/

This may sound like an old theme, but I think the time is right to revisit it. Scottish education is in the grip of near terminal seriousness. I feel fearful saying that, because countless meetings with educators at all levels have taught me that there is a lot of mileage in taking the business [...]

Rational or irrational?

I have just read the depressing fact that 60% of UK adults think that creationism should be taught alongside Darwin’s theory of evolution. Let me declare my hand from the outset; I am an atheist and a rationalist in most things as well [...]

More heat than light

Photo by “Policy Network” on Flickr. (Creative Commons)

I despair of a real learning conversation about the future of education ever happening in the glare of our appalling media culture. Today Terry Leahy, the chief executive of Tesco was quoted as a critic of “woefully low standards from our school leavers” (Presumably UK wide?). He was [...]