Knowledge Centre blogs

The Open University’s Institute of Educational Technology recently released a fantastic report – “Innovating Pedagogy 2012” (pdf) (Creative Commons licenced too).  The report offers 10 innovations with the potential to change education in the short to medium term.  It starts with a two page executive summary – so if you don’t read anything else, take a look at that!

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Is coverage of new coding initiatives just reaching the same old suspects, or are we (and should we be) drawing in new people?

This is the question I want to look at now, following on from last week's blog which outlined some rough ideas about levels of activity in computer use.

There are broadly two camps in the push for more coding:

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Some thoughts on my practical experiences of field work (and preliminary outcomes!)

I’ve now done three runs of my field work and started analysing the data.  So today I thought I’d discuss some of the preliminary findings, and their implications.  The findings are interesting in themselves, but I also want to highlight some of the benefits of the methods I used – recording talk, and ‘on-screen’ behaviours of groups of children completing search engine tasks.

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