Free Post media literacy Media Literacy will not create trust in journalism There's an assumption that just training people to be critical of media will help deal with misinformation. That's wrong.
Free Post fake news To beat "Fake News", look to… Finland? Finland has been fighting Russian information warfare for over five years. What have they learnt?
Free Post community engagement Engagement: The RSA’s Schools without Walls event Liveblogged notes from the RSA event looking at increased community engagement with education, and ways of fostering it.
Free Post education Don't ban children from using smartphones - teach them to use them responsibly There’s a lot of debate in the UK about the next generation and their use of technology. France has banned smartphones in schools, and now philosopher Julian Baggini is
Free Post disruption LeWeb: From incremental to disruptive innovation What does truly disruptive innovation look like? The opening session of LeWeb 2014’s third and final day set out to explore that in series of talks. Here’s some liveblogged notes: Brian Solis – Innovation as an ecosystem What is possible with disruption when
Free Post education #leweb - The robots are coming for our kids... Liveblog of Bruno Maisonnier, Founder & Director, Aldebaran Robotics at LeWeb 10 Can robots make the world of education better? Can universes benefit from robots? Can autistic children improve through a robot companion? Can children start enjoying maths when taught by a robot pal?
Free Post education Learning, emulation and voice How unexpected was that? A Bank Holiday weekend, and beautiful weather the whole time. Gorgeous. At least, that’s what I hear. Personally, I was stuck inside marking, a result of having spent part of the past nine months or so as a pretend
Free Post Like Minds Exeter 2012 Liveblogs - day one Links to my liveblogs of day one of Like Minds Exeter 2012**Morning session:**- [Russ Lidstone: Why what you do matters](http://wearelikeminds.com/like-minds-2012/russ-lidstone-why-what-you-do-matters) – Russ kicked off the “ideas festival” with a talk that played straight to the core issues of
Free Post education National news media? Yeah, right. So, today the (allegedly) British media goes into its annual frenzy of exam-results celebration, in predictable style. First we have the pretty girls celebrating. Tomorrow, inevitably, it’ll be all about how A-levels have been dumbed down But that’s not what’s really
Free Post charity Le Web: Queen Rania of Jordon  And now, possibly our most high-profile speaker, [Queen Rania of Jordan](http://twitter.com/queenrania). Genuine royalty, rather than the metaphorical tech royalty…It’s interesting that Queen Rania
Free Post blogs Facing The Future of Journalism (and liking it) I’ve gone a bit quiet, haven’t I? Sorry about that, but I’ve been busy, holidaying and sick, but not necessarily in that order. One element of the busyness was this: Yes, I was back in Cardiff to guest lecture to this
Free Post danah boyd Ways to Warm to Wikipedia The good Doctor Tinworth, my wife Lorna, has told me many times how Wikipedia is becoming a battleground in universities, particularly in the sciences. More and more students are handing in papers which cite only Wikipedia as a source. Anyone who knows anything about
Free Post attention Life With Open Laptops The Washington Post has published an interesting article by a law professor about students attending classes with laptops open. It calls into question the idea that the younger generation are as able to multi-task and process as many information sources as we think they
Free Post blogging Hey, Teacher, Don't Leave Those Journo Kids Alone Martin Stabe has some good advice for journalism schools: Journalism schools need to teach their students that blogs are internet publications like any other. They are public on the internet and can be read by anyone in the world with an internet connection. They
Free Post education Those Who Can, Do AND Teach Teaching dedication takes on a whole new meaning at Fraser’s school: Last night, I wrote an application which I imaginatively call KidBrowser. … Basically, it’s an ultra-simple web browser for our Primary 1 children (age 5-6). It has a row of buttons along
