Stones into Schools is the follow-up story to Three cups of tea, starting in 2003 where we left Greg Mortenson looking to expand the Central Asia Institute mission to building schools in Afghanistan. As expected the story is just as engaging and fascinating as the one narrated in the first …
read moreMozilla Drumbeat Festival | Learning, Freedom and the Web
This sounds so, so cool: Mozilla Drumbeat Festival. "Join us in Barcelona for three days of making, teaching, hacking, inventing and shaping the future of education and the web."
Three days in the middle of the week, in another country, it's unlikely I'll be able to go, but damn... I'll …
read morePython Ireland August meetup | Community building & education
read moreThe talks
I happily went along to the August meetup of Python Ireland last Wednesday, where as I expected the community talk was very interesting. Kevin showed us the results of the surveys he sent out after PyCon Ireland (survey says: 100% satisfaction!), and a second one to understand the …
More education links
- An interesting project is brewing up in Camara to provide IT Support for Irish schools. I'm keenly looking forward to the first meetup to hear more about it.
- Another cool LWN article on Bringing open-source to schools that I'm only properly catching up on now. The projects linked to are …
Linkage: education and tech
Urgh, I've been desperately trying to get back on top of my inbox since studying for the exam. I think this week-end I might win the fight!
In the meantime, 2 interesting links on education & technology:
- Brian talks about Irish schools and ICT. This gives an interesting view of the …