Tweet This blog is dormant. I’ve just finished a new book (Dudeney, G., Hockly, N. & Pegrum, M. (2013) Digital Literacies, Pearson Education) and am starting work on a new book on mLearning with Nicky Hockly. There’s only so much time available in each day…
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Tweet I’m just back from the fantastic IATEFL TD and LT SIG conference in Istanbul, locally organised by the very organised Burcu Akyol and team. A timely conference looking at teacher development with and without technology – though it so happens that when you look at the stories, they’re mostly about teacher development aided and [...]
Tweet Yesterday, before shutting down for the day (both electronically & mentally) I took the time to catch up with Apple’s latest ‘event’, which was entirely dedicated to learning. At the event they announced a couple of new products which I think are real game changers: a new version of iBooks that displays more interactive [...]
Tweet I’m on a plane… I’m on a plane back from a conference… a very good conference, as it happens. But it was also one of those conferences that neatly summarises many of the problems and paradoxes in the conference goers life. Firstly the plenary speakers – all white, middle-class, middle-aged+ Brits. One of the [...]
Tweet I was back in Russia last week, as part of a long-term research project in conjunction with the British Council; a project looking at what the success factors are for the consistent and pedagogically sound integration of technologies in primary and secondary. So far we’ve talked to pre- and in-service teacher training institutes, spoken [...]
Tweet The left hand doesn’t seem to know what the right hand is up to in the DOGME camp these days, or so it would seem… The Interactive Whiteboard – oft referred to as the ‘Interactive White Elephant’ in many a hardcore DOGME article and talk [ "In the end, whether or not you [...]
Tweet I’m putting together a new talk for a couple of conferences later this year, and I’m looking for some opinions. Here are the details of the talk: TITLE: A History of Technology in Teaching ABSTRACT: Having worked with technologies in teaching and teacher training since 1990 I have seen a wide range of advances [...]
Tweet Here we go again… Spring is in the air and it’s time for another round of ‘ed. tech specialist’ versus ‘tech sceptic’. And we have recently had a couple of large-scale debates to further push the envelope of informed discussion: the ELTJ debate at IATEFL, and the spate of blog postings this past Sunday. [...]
Tweet I note that, since the recent IATEFL conference in Brighton, there’s a renewed interest in Postman and his views on technology. Someone even seems to have created a Twitter account specifically to regale us with his views on the transistor radio, the hit parade, cyberspace and more. But the point about Postman (aside from [...]
Tweet [ firstly with my IATEFL hat on... ] Just back from the IATEFL conference which, once again, was superbly organised and run by Glenda and her team at Head Office. To pull off a conference with 2,300 delegates is no mean feat, but they manage to do it every year and I do hope [...]
Tweet I must confess I didn’t start it – I followed suit like a lemming. Others braver than me had forged the path. But this morning I killed my Twitter account after over four years of activity and building up a large collection of followers and friends. So why are people doing this? I can’t [...]
Tweet Oh dear…. Over on this blog there’s a post called “10 Reasons NOT to buy an iPad 2“. Let’s deconstruct them: 1) It’s not a phone That’s very true. It’s also not a lawnmower, or a coffee machine, a bath or a bicycle. There is logic lacking here, and that sentence doesn’t make a [...]
Tweet Well, I’ve been thinking about this post for some time now, and I can already hear the clatter of keyboards as they dash to respond… The thing is – and this is the nub of the post (and a comment I threw in to Twitter this morning) – I think all this ‘PLN’ business [...]
Tweet So I finally cracked and got an Android phone to go along with the plethora of i-Devices I’ve come to know and love so well. This was partially to plug a little gap in my personal experience in terms of talking about mLearning and running the course I’m currently tutoring, but also to see [...]