Laurie O'Donnell

Had a busy start to 2010 -  which tends to be a good thing when you are self employed.  Already been to London three times including a week at BETT2010 and the Learning and Technology World Forum which has been great but my blog has been suffering. My aim is to do a lot better [...]

Interesting research commissioned by C4 on how the 12-24s use technology.
Top-line stats are:

They personally own 8 devices (including MP3 player, PC, TV, DVD player, mobile phone, stereo, games console, and digital camera)
They frequently conduct over 5 activities whilst watching TV
25% of them agree that “I’d rather stay at home than go on a holiday with [...]

There is an article by Melanie Reid in this morning’s Times Online covering George Lucas’ testimony to the US Congress.
Under the headline ‘The Force is with Scotland’s School’s intranet, says George Lucas’ the articles goes on to say:
‘In what must rank as one of the most heady compliments ever given to an education system, the [...]

Started yesterday morning by running to catch the 0636 train from Broughty Ferry to Glasgow and ended it back at Broughty Ferry station on the 1730 train from Edinburgh. Rather then feeling tired at the end of a busy day I felt full of energy and even more enthusiastic about the future of education than [...]

As part of the award I was asked to answer a few question for ‘Edutopia’ the front-end of the George Lucas Educational Foundation.
Starts:
O’Donnell describes the ups and downs of the Glow roll-out in his blog but his main lesson learned is about the importance of patience and good-faith collaboration: “The time it takes to take [...]

I was interviewed recently on Glow by Whitelight Media for Connected 20.
The questions came from our readers see below for my best attempt at answers.
Viewpoint: Laurie O’Donnell

You have been quoted as saying that Glow is the most ambitious education ICT project in the world.
How are we doing so far?
We are putting in place the [...]

I was interviewed last week by Nicola More of White Light Media – the company that does the journalism, design etc for our award winning Connected magazine. The theme was Glow and Nicola asked me some questions that had been rasied by our readers. The full text will appear within our ConnectedLive site but for [...]