Happy weekend! Time to kick back and catch up on all the education and maker news you might have missed this week. So without further ado, here’s our weekly best of the web reading list.
Author: andrew-pi-top
Have makers solved the Banksy shredding mystery?
As a piece of publicity, you’ve got to admire it. Sell a painting for £1m and as the auctioneer’s gavel hits the mahogany woodwork of Sotheby’s, half shred it before the world’s media.
What we’ve been reading, week 40
October’s here, and so’s our weekly best of the web reading list. Here are the education stories, subjects and news you need to know about.
World Teachers’ Day: the life of Joe Bower
October 5th marks World Teachers’ Day, where people celebrate the millions of teachers around the world. But we’ve chosen to celebrate just one…
Is Pearson the Kodak of education?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) often makes the list of things that are ‘just around the corner’ in the forthcoming Fourth Industrial Revolution; swiftly followed by ubiquitous connectivity, full robotic automation, and supercomputing for all.
What we’ve been reading, week 38
So how’s the new term going? If you’ve had a manic week and haven’t had time to stop and read interesting education stories from around the world, don’t worry, we’ve done it for you. Here’s this week’s ‘best of the web’ round up of articles, posts and content that’s given us food for thought. What […]
What we’ve been reading, week 37
Welcome to this week’s ‘best of the web’ round up of articles, posts and content that’s given us food for thought. EdTech to help close the opportunity gap A new report from Reform out this week examines the role of edtech in closing the gap in opportunity. The paper highlights the different areas where EdTech […]
Maps, memory and the banning of mobiles in French schools
If you’ve spent some of the summer holidaying in France, you might have come across a vide-grenier (literally ’empty attic’). These bric-a-brac yard sales are full of the sort of reclaimable junk objects that once cleaned up or framed, sell for a hefty mark up in the vintage stores of east London or Williamsburg, New […]
Using pi-tops in your holiday camp or after school club
Summer camps and after-school clubs are great fun, and are sometimes where learners get their hands on pi-tops for the very first time. Saturday Kids have been using pi-tops as part of their activities since May this year, in this guest post, they explain how they do it. “Building a computer is part of the […]
Case study: digital making beyond the computer science classroom
Neil Mittal is a teacher at All Saints’ Episcopal School, Texas, USA. He’s also a pi-top champion. In this article, he tells us how he deployed pi-top to not only improve the learning experiences of students but also to get the entire school staff onboard too.
