Digital by Default

Tag: education

  • Getting by..

    Thanks to a tip off from Paul Miller (on the Xiphos blog) I came across the latest missive from Michael Wesch, he of YouTube fame(!), on the Brittanica blog.  Titled ‘A Vision of Students Today (& What Teachers Must Do)‘ there is alot I agree with and support but there was a particular section that…

  • Learning 2.0 at the Techcrunch 50 and DEMO

    If you are anything like me and have a feed reader filled to bursting point with all sorts of blogs that cover the web/start-up scene then you couldn’t miss this weeks blanket coverage of DEMO and Techcrunch50 (although we all know the big event this week was the ALT Conference in Leeds right?).  Now putting…

  • The education 2.0 debate hits Techcrunch!

    ..well Techcrunch UK – but still its nice to see education get some coverage outside of the usual suspects. The article kicked off an interesting debate in the comments which I contributed a couple of small points to and enjoyed reading the many intelligent comments (while people were not always agreeing it all remained very…

  • Beanbag for Bristol..

    A spate of almost aimless Googling and browsing yesterday (it started with a purpose but sometimes I just get swept away with the journey and forget about the destination!) brought me eventually to a new education based, web 2.0ish, start-up based in Bristol – Beanbag Learning. Now this alone was enough to pique my curiousity…