Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Feb 8th, 2008
Reprinted from the NAACE Newsletter
JISC initiated a study involving a combination of examination of data from longitudinal studies and new research to see whether the “Google Generation” (post-1993) approached research tasks in a significantly different way to people from previous cohorts.
They define six types of behaviour:
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Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Jun 14th, 2007
Interested in free software to support your school curriculum program?
Below is a comprehensive list of free software resources for teachers. (Thanks to Alison Tanner from Darrick Wood School for this entry). Are any of you making use of these programs? Do they work well? Share some of your thoughts in the comments area.. Continue Reading »
Posted by Andrew Ferrier on Jun 11th, 2007
(Thanks to the NAACE Newsletter)
A national survey commissioned by DirectGov questioned parents, teenagers, over 50s, motorists and disabled people in order to ascertain what servoices they would like to see provided online. Overall, the top five answers were:
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