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Curriculum design and implementation once the site of intense debate between educators and the public has, over the last 35 years, become ...

Travelling quite often propels you into a very different semiotic context in which, at least in the first few days, you are unusually sens...

Do we all have undeveloped areas of interest? I suspect we do, and sometimes I think it's the case that the interest is latent - we mi...

Watching toddlers on iPads quickly shows that the claim that the interface is 'intuitive' is quite clearly a complete myth. Not on...

The idea that the virtual is constituted by the work of the imagination on tangible material phenomena only really started to take shape f...

Over this holiday I seem to have been surrounded by electronic toys. It seems that nearly every present for babies and toddlers comes with...

Oh hell, I'm stuck in The Room - or to be more precise I'm stuck on a puzzle in an impressive iPad app. It's enough to while ...

If the high era of industrialisation was driven by the logic of mass production, it could be argued that the digital age is driven by the ...

It's still a thrill to get your hands on the book you wrote or edited. Last week we (that's me, Julia Gillen, Jackie Marsh & ...

Sir Ken Robinson opened the day's business at NCTE 2012 . His mixture of simple truths, stand-up comedy and tweet-able soundbites is ...

When I started out in academic lresearch I learned about two important things: one was how to locate information and the other was how to ...

In 1996, when Peter Gabriel released the ground-breaking game Eve , he hit on a novel concept - players could remix, albeit in a rather ba...

Academic re-mix, or what - I laughed at this! It's not of course that we want to draw hard and fast lines between quantitative and qu...

In preparing the open textbook for DefT we want to avoid getting mired in the seemingly endless debate over definitions of digital literac...

Ever since I came across this apparently innocent, 'off-duty' pic of our PM, I've been thinking about the issues it raises. ...

Journalists have latched on to Aric Sigman's polemic about the health risks of screen time on young children with gusto, ...

The Effect of a Book, Extending Beyond The Form from João Machado on Vimeo . This little video that draws attention to what our hands ...

I've been on leave for a while, but back in time for the DeFT project conference which was a raging success! I'm sure there'll...

Mr Santos. I hope it's not his real name. We heard about Mr Santos on Wednesday afternoon, and I've been thinking about him, on and...

Visitors can bring something fresh, or even something familiar seen from a different perspective. I suppose both seemed to be true listening...