Technology for Learning

The Parents as Partners webcast had a very lively conversation tonight about Parents and Web 2.0 tools. So lively that I wanted to capture some of the great ideas while they were fresh in my mind.
Steve Hargadon of Classroom 2.0 was the guest tonight on Lorna Costantini’s hosted webcast. The chatroom was filled [...]

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photo credit: Jug Jones
This is what I’ve been waiting until end of term to do – move my main blog to an equally new website. The whole process has not been without bumps. I bought the domain a while ago – tech4learning.ca – and kept focused on work and my studies as I knew [...]

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Content Filtering refers to the use of some computer hardware or software to block certain content from being accessed on the Internet. Some people equate content filtering with any blocking activity, but it is important to separate Internet traffic that is blocked because it has the potential to do damage to the hardware and software, [...]

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I’ve been doing a lot of reading about Parent Engagement in K-12 Schools. What has struck me is the relative lack of controversy in the literature.
There are two consistent themes in the literature:
1. The parent engagement models are both limited and validated in the research. Parents want to engage, engagement declines over the [...]

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The UK Office of Communications (Ofcom) has just published new quantitative and qualitative research on social networking in the report Social Networking
A quantitative and qualitative research report into attitudes, behaviours and use.
The report categorizes users and non-users:

Users:

Alpha Socialisers (a minority) – people who used sites in intense short bursts to flirt, meet new people, and [...]

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