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I listened to a spirited talk on the cultural and educational benefits of videogames on Wednesday . Mitu Khandaker (University of Portsmout...

After spending several hours in a virtual world on Friday I again found myself reflecting on the way in which the virtual provokes me to re-...

To my mind the main contribution of the multimodal movement has been to turn our attention to the broader terrain of meaning-making and to c...

For most of the work I've been involved in over the last ten years, the words 'technology' or 'internet' have seemed far...

Michael Gove, the Secretary of Sate for Education, is either completely confused about reading and learning to read, or else he is poorly ad...

There may be something in the idea that we are moving away from an era of discipline and punishment into an era of control and security. Cer...

Two recent sources cast some doubt over the educational benefits of videogames. Young and colleagues (2012) , in an extensive literature rev...

In a relatively short length of time, ways of thinking about digital technologies in schools seem to have shifted. When we started up the De...

I've been experimenting with GPS - doing my homework for the DeFT project , and I must say I've always been impressed with the whole...

I've been keeping a Blogger blog for nearly 9 years now, and it suits me down to the ground. When Google bought out Blogger it didn'...

I'm drawn to looking at the cross-cutting layers of our literacy practices and what these look like in an era of digital communication. ...

On my idiosyncratic pathway through informal meetings and programmed events at AERA 2012 I became interested in how becoming literate with t...

I'm back in the UK, after the annual pilgrimage to AERA, which this year was in beautiful Vancouver. As always it was great to meet up w...

Sifting through some old books I came across an almost pristine copy of the 'Handbook of Suggestions for Teachers' released by the B...

I have a lot of respect for academic and Guardian columnist John Naughton , who regularly contributes measured responses to debates about te...

OK - I really like the New iPad, and I'm glad I indulged myself. Like my last purchase, the Kindle, it demonstrates how slick digital te...

There were some pretty strange goings-on in Dasein (that's my place in SL) last Thursday night. The course participants had some very ba...

We've been evaluating the Booked Up programme (to a rather tight timescale), and that's rather distracted me from blogging of late....

Frank Cottrell Boyce has a good piece in today's Observer in which he is critical of our national obsession with testing and education...

It could be said that the biggest irony in our current obsession with phonics teaching is in the naming of the brand - 'synthetic phonic...