ICT Advice Alert – October 2008. Some items: www.becta.org.uk/schools

•  Home Access project announced
• The Prime Minister has announced top line details of the Home Access project which will see some £300 million spent on providing computers and broadband internet access to families so that children can enhance their learning at home.
• Becta report shows benefits of Web 2.0 in the classroom
• Major new research into the use of Web 2.0 technologies, such as wikis, blogs and social networking, shows that young learners are prolific users of these technologies in their leisure time, but the use of Web 2.0 in the classroom is still limited.
• Parents want schools to text about their child’s progress
• A survey shows that parents are more informed about their bank balance than how their child is doing at school and over two-thirds of parents would like schools to use technologies such as text messaging and the internet to communicate with them more frequently.

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