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Intervention learning

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Photo from Wikimedia Commons Predictably, the ideas that dominated at Learning Technologies 2019 (#LT19uk) were mostly on new and emerging technologies. and then they heard the statistics of hours lost and costs of injuries to the industry, and the personal stories of life changing injuries, scars and psychological trauma.

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MIS en place

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Photo by Helloquence on unsplash This is the first post in a new series about School Management Information Systems. This post is sponsored by RM Education MIS en place by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

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Tested to breaking point?

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It generates grades which are then added to a database to indicate how well the school is doing, and ultimately feeds into statistics to work out school league tables. Must we put them under such pressure just for the sake of a few statistics? Photo by Jim Champion on Wikimedia Commons Tested to breaking point?

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A friend of a friend

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Now Facebook has demonstrated that amongst its users at least, that statistic has been reduced to an average of around 3.5 - but bear in mind this applies only to its subscribers. Back in 2012, I predicted that the era of social media would reduce that degrees of separation. Unported License.

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A safer Internet?

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The statistics are shocking. Photo by Joel Bombardier A safer Internet? by Steve Wheeler is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 According to a recent BBC survey of 3500 parents and children, only 8% of parents thought their children had seen something upsetting on the Internet.

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Tested to distraction

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Governments are more interested in ensuring that their statistics and metrics continue to rise, than they are about children's learning. He will look very busy, and there will be plenty of statistics, but ultimately, plant growth will be compromised. Schools are political footballs. Unported License.

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Digitally safe?

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I don't know where this statistic came from, and probably, neither do you. Many schools take online safety very seriously, and won't even allow photos to be taken of them within school settings. Photo by Steve Paine on Flickr Digitally safe? And how do we check the claim that the digital birth of children is 6 months?

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