NewsMobile Learning and Classrooms of the Future
Another mini White Paper, produced by Brighton based testing facility ‘Epicentre’, this time focusing on mobile learning and the classrooms of the future.
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Experienced consultative sales role
UPDATE: This post was taken but check back for future opportunities.
Vivid Interactive, based in the heart of Brighton, was established in 1988 and is one of the most experienced digital media consultancy and production companies in the UK. Specialising in the development of digital media for education Vivid has an impressive track record of clients and projects.
To help us in our growth at an exciting time of expansion we are looking for an experienced salesperson to drive our sales. Candidates must be very familiar with the world of educational publishing and primary and secondary education, have extensive experience of consultative selling and be passionate about digital media for education. Read on »
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Developing Literacy
Client: A&C Black
Developing Literacy is a new series of engaging interactive activities for use as lesson starters on an interactive whiteboard.
This four disk series, aimed at KS2 pupils, is organised into the three literacy strands: word structure & spelling, sentence structure and punctuation & understanding & creating text. Each strand provides eight activities, each with an associated key framework objective. Read on »
Mick’s musings
Vivid Interactive MD, Mick Landmann, has set up a blog to discuss issues around education and digital media. He is very keen to extend his discussion to anyone who is involved in or has views on education in the 21st century.
Designs on the future
Well-designed school buildings with high quality facilities, especially for ICT, are the key to delivering effective, personalised education.
The Government’s £48bn Building Schools for the Future program aims to help local authorities update and improve school buildings, or rebuild secondary schools if necessary.
Crucial to this programme is the need to integrate digital technology into school infrastructure. Read on »
A virus ate my e-portfolio, miss
An e-portfolio is a digital collection of pupils’ education documents, but it has the potential to do much more.
Before technology got sophisticated, pupils stored their work in notebooks or folders, which were vulnerable to loss and damage and filled up. Read on »
Education without frontiers
Imagine a world where education fits the pupils, rather than the pupils learning to fit into the system. Sounds simple, doesn’t it.
Well, that’s ‘personalisation’ in a nutshell.
The Plowden Report of 1967 says that:
“The school sets out….to devise the right environment for children to allow them to be themselves and to develop in the way and at a pace appropriate to them…”
Yet the practicalities of a teacher led classroom based education has not been able to deliver on ideals. Read on »
Classrooms without walls
Flexibility is the key to the new national curriculum with learning taking place in and out of the classroom.
The aim is to tailor education to pupils’ needs to a greater extent and to make closer links with employment and the skills required in the 21st century world of work. Read on »