"The hole in the wall: self organising systems in education" Keynote speech by Sugata Mitra, Professor of Educational Technology at Newcastle University (Twitter track by agreement with Sugata) at "Into something rich and strange" - making sense of the sea change, the 2010 conference of the Association for Learning Technology (ALT). Session given in Nottingham, UK, on Wednesday 8 September 2010, at 14.00. For information about ALT go to http://www.alt.ac.uk/. Made publicly available by ALT under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 2.0 UK: England & Wales license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/bync/2.0/uk/.

Wise words from Ollie as ever, nice to see another viewpoint espousing learning and pedagogy over tools and technology

Research and case studies collated on one site

Marzano, Pickering and Pollock examined decades of research to find the teaching strategies that have the most impact on student learning. They identified nine strategies that have the "highest probability of enhancing student achievement for all students in all subject areas at all grade levels." Below is a chart showing those nine strategies with their corresponding average percentile point gains on student achievement tests.
Many teachers are asking how technology can be integrated with these strategies to improve student learning. Click on the links (each bar of the graph below) to review those strategies and see examples and templates to support technology integration.

Our greatest fear, in bringing computers into the classroom, is that we teachers and instructors and lecturers will lose control of the classroom, lose touch with the students, lose the ability to make a difference...

Kristian Still teaches 16 - 19 year old young men in a sports course at Tauton's College in the UK, in the audio interview with Kristian that is linked below, he takes us through his websites and shows examples of all of these technologies,

There is a problem that I see arising with blogs in the classroom. A problem that has many educators looking at blogging and not understanding why one would want to blog, how it benefits students and how it engages them in the learning process.

The biggest question about technology and schools in the twenty-first century is not so much "What can it do?" but, rather, "When will it get to do it?" We all know life will be much different by 2100. Will school? How close will we be to Edutopia? First