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The Business of Education

Posted on June 4, 2009

I came across a really interesting piece of software recently from a company called Screen Learning. It develops educational games for assessing children between the ages of 3 and 6.

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The Business of Education

Curriculum Review Missed the Boat

Posted on April 30, 2009

Today in England, the review by Sir Jim Rose of the English Primary Curriculum was reported. The report was pre-empted by stories in the press that it was going to recommend the use of Twitter and other social media sites.

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The Business of Education

Games in Learning

Posted on April 23, 2009

Given the popularity of computer games at home, it is hardly surprising that there is an increasing interest in their use in school. A growing number of teachers use games in their teaching, and this trend was picked up by the Department of Education about four years ago.

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Magic Studio: Bringing Cultural Content to Education

Posted on February 27, 2009

When I worked at the Department for Education there was a big push to get the tremendous wealth of digitized assets, which had been produced by the many world renowned museums, galleries and archives, made available to teachers to use in their teaching and learning.

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MyBnk: The Answer to the Global Economic Crisis?

Posted on February 19, 2009

MyBnk founder Lily Lapenna, who won the New Statesman Young Social Entrepreneur last year, set up this social enterprise to build the knowledge, skills and confidence to enable children to manage their money effectively and make enterprising choices throughout their lives.

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The Future of Educational Content?

Posted on February 12, 2009

A few years back when I was working at the Dept. of Education I started having discussions with software developers about alternative business models for educational software. This basically came down to a discussion about software becoming a freely available resource with any revenue stream coming from appropriate goods and services which added value to the software.

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