Author Archives: Eylan
Evolving Wonder
Video Conferencing is ripe for evolution and, fortunately, change is coming – and it’s wonder-ful. Video conferencing (VC) tools like Zoom, which have taken over our lives since the pandemic started, have been forced into the service of our many … Continue reading
Corana exposed the Tradio Tzar
This week, the government’s Behaviour Tzar and cheerleader of one tribe of #edutwitter seems to have had a meltdown in front of his 72K followers. (Updated version) Picking on the very affordances of technology that propelled him into the big … Continue reading
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An Open Heart
This is a very personal post about Dai Barnes, who died last month. This is an attempt to write about more complex thoughts … about what knowing someone as a whole can be like – and what death of that … Continue reading
Three steps to a better EdTech strategy
In my role as Trustee for A New Direction, London’s creative education agency, I wrote three guest posts to help their community in creating better Edtech in the Arts, Culture and Heritage sector. I offered advice in the form of three steps: … Continue reading
Digital Governance
School governors are a bit like hedgehogs. Our activity is mostly misunderstood, we can have a much bigger impact on the world than you might think, and we are busiest at night. Stretching this simile even further (with apologies to … Continue reading
Posted in Governance, Innovation
Tagged governance, o365, School governors, schools, ukgovchat
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Quantum states of Society
I had a nightmare about a breakdown in society last night, and I woke knowing that that this fear has been there all along. I am not scared of what might happen, but of what is happening- and what … Continue reading
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Pedagogy is Political
Warning – Polemic – Warning Today, the news is full of shock and anger, mostly from the Left, at the news that St Olave’s Grammar School kicked out kids that were not maintaining the ‘high standards’ and exceptional results it … Continue reading
There Will be Blood – GDPR and EdTech
New EU regulations look set to bring some light into the often shady ‘Oil Rush’ in EdTech, drilling for data from our schools. Individuals will have new and powerful rights to their personal data, and organisation will have to show … Continue reading
Four reasons to cry (if you are a museum educator)
via GIPHY It’s not often I bring an audience down. As an upbeat and excitable person – passionate about education and vocal about how digital can be an vehicle for innovation, I often find I have been scheduled to speak … Continue reading
Posted in edtech
Tagged ArtsEd, ArtsEducation, digital learning, GLAM, museums, Oxford University
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Innovation is not what you think it is…
via GIPHY (Yes, this is a gif of me) Innovation means so many things to so many people that it means nothing in most contexts. This week, I heard my least favourite use of the word, in relation to EdTech. I … Continue reading