Category: ‘Readings’

Notes on Design - A conversation about Omnium

Notes On Design invited Rick Bennett and I to talk about our experiences of long-distance and global online creative collaboration within the Omnium Research Group.

Rick and I have often felt that some of the more interesting conversations we have had have been over a couple of beers in informal settings, rather than sometimes dry and […]

The Silent Revolution and Education

Education in 2020

Futurelab have just published an interesting report called 2020 and beyond in which they predict some technology trends and raise issues for education.

It’s certainly a very worthwhile read, but I think they have skipped over the social aspect of all these technologies. Sharing, collaborating, tagging and having open conversations are the hallmarks of the current […]

Chicken.

This paper makes more sense than many academic presentations I have seen:

Via Lot 49.

Their Space is so much more…

Following up from my last post about the boomer divide, there is another good piece by David Puttnam in the Guardian about children’s experience of technology. The opening quote sums up the main points pretty well:

At a recent digital education conference in San Francisco, one of the more memorable remarks quoted came from […]