Learn 4 Life Podcast

The second podcast is out – short and sweet and a precursor to more regular content. Honest! This is more a test of the new mics etc I am using to get that “broadcast” sound I’m always obsessing over – this is pretty close. (Best Listened to through headphones or good reference sound speakers).

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Welcome to the Learn 4 Life Podcast Here is the audio tease for the next season of L4L’s News Podcasts for the Summer Term. We hope you enjoy the format – more to come next week. This week is only a tease to get you going but we will be going out more in-depth each week on UK Education topics. News and views from the Grass Roots for practising teachers and educators.

Last month I went along to the iPads in the Classroom event at the London Knowledge Lab. It was a dissemination of the summation of “research” about the use of iPads in the Classroom. Despite the various studies I am still unconvinced about wholesale use of iPads in classrooms. For me the big issue is the “lockin” that happens when using these devices. One thing that did seem to emerge out of the mist in this session, however, was the … →

This week’s interview is with Paul Harrington from Cefn Fforest Primary school in Wales – audio and video blogger extraordinaire. He talks about his classes’ use of David Warlick’s Blogmeister . Just watch him teach the time in Welsh using Flixn.com – completely transfixing and inspirationall! People like Paul trawl for Web 2.0 apps and share their use with a community of colleagues sometimes thousands of miles apart; they find the most relevant and use them in a concrete and … →

This month I talked to Ian Lynch about the INGOTS qualification given accreditation status by the QCA. INGOTs are International Grades in Open Technologies. They are a coherent set of certificates providing a progression route from complete beginner with learning disabilities to the level of secondary school leavers. They are designed to support international and social inclusion and to reflect contemporary learning through participation in on-line communities. What is unique about INGOTS is that they are to do with competencies … →

This month we talk with Robin Ball, Learning Services Manager of BECTA, about the Learning Platform Spec, open source, interoperability, pedagogy, training, NAACE and local services. Prior to joining Becta, Robin spent a number of years seconded from a Midlands university providing educational support for the development and deployment of learning platform technologies. He also workedalongside a number of local authorities and regional broadband consortia creating commissioned digital content. For the past two years he has worked as Becta’s Learning … →