We started off with seventy different themes posted on a display board. They were what we considered to be our first thoughts about necessary prerequisite skills for effective autonomous learning. Our goal over the coming weeks is to group them effectively, decide when they should be taught (and later reinforced) and by whom in which [...]

Having worked hard to ensure that we have popular functioning libraries and a computer room in our school (6-19 years) comprehensive, the next stage is to ensure that the students are properly equipped to make the most of their learning activities. Re-focusing on the topic of learning skills particularly those related to autonomous learning I [...]

Yesterday I took the opportunity to chat to four digital natives of differing ages at my home. They were Anna (school), Patrick final year university), Yvette (university student) and Carl (last year at school). Anna (17) multi-tasks regularly: listening to music, texting or mailing, doing homework etc and finds it normal and unproblematic. Carl (18) [...]