A lot of tools exist to allow pupils  and teachers to share and respond to ideas online, but one specifically designed for education is PrimaryWall . Create a Primary Wall and your create a unique address which can be shared with others. These are public and last for 30 days but you can pay...

Asking learners to re-tell, explain or summarise is an effective way of consolidating learning. It’s good to combine with tools that focus less on the technology and more on the message. One such is Make Beliefs Comix  Very easy to use – it’s free to use and doesn’t...

Bubble Comment looks like a neat and simple way of sharing web sites with video comments that ‘float’ above the website. Each comment can last for 90 seconds and is available for 30 days and/or up to 200 playbacks. You’d expect these sort of limitations from a free service....

According to an article by Bryan Appelyard in this week’s Sunday Times, “the digital age is destroying us by ruining our ability to concentrate.” Appelyard generalises from his own experience and quotes from a much more interesting essay by Nicholas Carr. It seems to be part of an...