Category Archives: Education

What makes a “future-oriented” policy? Towards a framework for identifying and analysing policies.

Posted on November 2, 2011 by admin

I have often emphasized the need for future-oriented policies in education as a response to rapidly increasing change to the extent that if I were to be asked, “Tryggvi, what are you all about?”, that would be the gist of … Continue reading →

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Interesting research on youths’ circumvention of age restrictions on social networking sites

Posted on November 1, 2011 by admin

danah boyd, et al. have published an interesting paper on their research youths’ use of social networking. In light of evidence showing that youth routinely circumvent age restrictions for the use of social networking technologies, the researchers decided to examine … Continue reading →

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What can we learn from Finnish education: A reaction to Diane Ravitch

Posted on October 12, 2011 by admin

This morning (Oct. 12, 2011) Diane Ravitch tweeted about an article on the “Bridging Differences” website that describes some of what she learned on her recent visit to Finland (anyone who follows Ravitch’s tweets will have known about this visit). … Continue reading →

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Are schools meeting tech-savvy learners’ needs: A very interesting article by an Icelandic upper-secondary student.

Posted on October 10, 2011 by admin

Ásgrímur Hermannsson, an Icelandic student in his last year of upper-secondary school (Icelandic upper-secondary school is years 10-14 – most students are aged 20 when they graduate), has written a particularly scathing critique of contemporary education (link goes to more-or-less … Continue reading →

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What do we really mean by “technology integration”?

Posted on September 25, 2011 by admin

Technology integration is a critical issue in education and one that has received considerable scholarly attention over the past two decades, at least. However, we have to be careful when we toss around the term “integration” as if it refers … Continue reading →

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Youth and ICTs: Response to a criticism of Thai tablet PC program

Posted on September 21, 2011 by admin

Veena Thoopkrajae has an article on The Nation criticizing a plan to give all Thai grade 1 students a free tablet PC. Thoopkrajae claims that there are more pressing issues in Thai education and that the tablet PC program is … Continue reading →

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