Category Archives: ICTs

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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Past-term policies: When policies fail to address future contexts

Posted on September 20, 2011 by admin

An important aspect of educational policy making is the timespan that policies are expected to address. In general, there is an assumption that policies are directed toward the future and are expected to function as pathways going forward in time. … Continue reading →

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Creating old meaning: When new concepts are repurposed to mask an absence of change.

Posted on August 25, 2011 by admin

Michael Fullan (see The New Meaning of Educational Change) argues that the key to educational change is the creation of new, shared meaning to define novel contexts that help us address issues of concern. Through the decades we’ve seen a … Continue reading →

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Bits and pieces from around the web

Posted on August 24, 2011 by admin

Here’s a quick summary of interesting things that I’ve been posting on my facebook page recently that are no less relevant to this blog. Here’s an interesting article looking at the Summerhill School through the experiences of former students. The … Continue reading →