U.K. survey: Teachers say tech boosts students? learning

The second annual Dell survey on information and communications technology in education found that 90% of teachers, compared with 68% a year ago, regard ICT as very important to their school. Nearly 74% of educators in this year’s poll said technology has helped motivate students, while 68% agreed that ICT had made learning more enjoyable for most pupils.

See the article in the Guardian. Way to go U.K.!

Hey, maybe the next survey can say blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 programs have made learning more enjoyable for most pupils! While we’re at let’s include the USA! And Scotland and Canada and Japan and Brazil and all other countries!

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Need an Escape Plan?

I really enjoy the Escape from Cubicle Nation blog and now you can prepare your own escape to free-agentry with this audio program and workbook. Check out “3 Steps to break through the fear of leaving your corporate job so you can get on the road to starting your own business“:

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Blogs as Research

I’ve been playing around with Google Reader and just noticed an interesting thread between the first two posts that I shared to my public page. First, David Weinberger:

I came away realizing why media literacy programs often bother me. Frequently, the idea even is that we have to teach our children how to recognize the Internet sites that are as reliable and safe as what they’ll find in a library. That’s a useful skill, but the overall picture is wrong. If you want to know what’s going on in a field, the static and credentialed sources generally aren’t where you want to go. The credentialed sources are great for certain types of information—the solid and stolid facts, the commoditized information, the boring truth—but the real intellectual action is usually occurring in the blogs, newsletters, and forums. Confining students to the credentialed sites is likely to kill their interest and enthusiasm. [Emphasis mine.]

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