Education

Collabor8 - Creative Waves 2008

The Omnium Project will be running another global online creative collaboration project under the Creative Waves banner from 28th April - 20 June, this time …

Parents to be educated about the Interweb

There’s a well-balanced piece from Patrick Wintourin the Guardian today about parents being shown how to protect their children online. It reports of a …

Creative Play helps children's self-control

There’s an interesting piece about Creative Play on NPR at the moment that looks at a school running the Tools of the Mind programme. One of the findings …

OLPC - I take it all back

Some will argue that I’m weak-willed, but I have made a 180-degree change of opinion on the merits of the One Laptop Per Child project thanks to Tom …

iPlay - interactivity without the flab

Chris just posted an interesting find called the iPlay. It’s basically an interactive playground frame game, which means that children have to run around …

Moving Between Consulting and Academia

Jon Kolko’s article, Out of the Frying Pan, into the Fire: Life lessons from consulting to academia, and back again over at Core77, was a particularly …

OLPC versus Nintendo DS

Alexander Stojanovic makes an interesting comparison between the Nintendo DS and the OLPC. Having bought both for his five year-old daughter at Christmas he …