Every child matters – apart from the 100,000 out of school
By Merlin John
According to research, 100,000 children are missing from normal schooling. Yet despite considerable evidence that online learning can prove extremely effective in motivating and re-engaging young people out of school, existing successful online services are only scratching the surface of the problem, as Merlin John reports.
Money matters
By Kim Thomas
Wendy van den Hende is the chief executive of the Personal Finance Education Group, an organisation helping to educate schoolchildren about money management. She spoke to Kim Thomas about pfeg’s aims and its latest project, Learning Money Matters.
Resistance is not futile – it’s the haptic key to investigating 3D worlds
By Merlin John
It may be in fits and starts, but haptic technology - the physical feedback that introduces human sensitivity to control techno-muscle - is on its way. Merlin John investigates some of the latest real-world applications.
Mapping the invisible
By Kim Thomas
Martin Dodge is an academic geographer whose work has involved mapping the geography of cyberspace and unpicking the politics of pervasive computing. His aim, he tells Kim Thomas, is to make hidden relationships visible.
Transforming learning spaces to personalise learning
By Tash Lee
With current debates about what a 21st century education should look like, the Fountaineers project is showing that children and teachers have enormous scope to influence the reconfiguration of their buildings and outdoor spaces - and the ways in which they learn.
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Not boring!
By Kim Thomas
NESTA’s action-packed Planet Science website has been a huge success. Now it’s launching a new venture, Planet SciCast, which aims to get schoolchildren and adults filming their own science demonstrations. Kim Thomas talked to Katie Walsh, Planet Science’s project manager, to find out more.
Overcoming the resistances to innovation in the classroom
By Nick Soucek
Are classrooms places of change? Is there an inherent worth in change? Is there a benefit in empowering teachers to change their own practices to suit the needs of their students? Futurelab is investigating the role of teachers as innovators, examining what models, methods and techniques can be used to aid in developing new practices within classrooms and schools.
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