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The first word my grandson said was 'Peppa'. An inveterate fan from 18 months, the Peppa Pig series is available to him on TV, a c...

I haven't written about psychogeography for a while, but my interest was rekindled by the recent broadcast of walking with attitude whi...

The phonebox, or public payphone, is quickly becoming a historic trace, an archeological remnant of earlier patterns of communication - of a...

I'm putting the final touches to my paper on the The Trashmaster machinima, and its been fun returning to this. There's a delicate b...

Over the last fifteen years literacy education has been marked by two contradictory influences. On the one hand attempts to conceptualise si...

In some ways last week's Digital Literacies meeting at JISC confirmed my suspicion, that our current terminology is reaching the end of ...

The phonics screening test is one of the absurd initiatives brought in by the current government in the UK. Teachers involved have been inv...

I was drafted in at the last moment to the Writers Panel at this year's UKLA International Conference. The star attractions were the wri...

In trying to analyse the latest tranche of virtual world data, the challenge of capturing and documenting complexity without reducing it is ...

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. ...