Let them think Tree

Beech trees protected drovers and their cattle from the elements, but have been replaced by big lorries. At the other end of the visible spectrum Physics has enabled the explanation of invisible phenomena that have enabled modern society. The drive to ascribe AI such capabilities seems premature and indeed a source of teacher CPD angst.

Computers, computers, computers

The numbers of edu-screens per child looks set to exceed the number of teachers in Scotland by a factor of three. The reason is that last year the school PTA was working on the theory that all the kids in a school should have an ipad. This year its a chrome book and the year or so before it was vital that IBM PCs were in rooms on their own or where ever there was a space.

Of course there are plenty of lesson plans to go with such from navigatory themed stuff for our friend BeeBot and its visual analogue Scratch; we have lego-type robots too now.

What I particularly is the stereotypical, not the glossy magazines, not the words of mass distraction. If I had one phrase to sum up digital and its application in schools it would be frippery.