Blogs and Media Coverage of VITTA conference

In the lead up to the 2007 VITTA annual conference and expo I put together a press release. It was picked up by the Herald Sun on November 13 in an article called "Rise of the iPupil" written by Greg Thom - you can read it here: http://www.vitta.org.au/2007/Rise_of_the_iPupil-GregThom

Interestingly - it got picked up by a bunch of news aggregators around the world. Unfortunately the article is no longer available on the Herald Sun site - so I hope that by linking to it here others may be able to find it again.

... and here's some of the blogs I've seen reporting on the VITTA conference

Bill Kerr: Some thoughts about prof stephen
Tony Forster: Games programming cluster at vitta
Stephen Heppell: VITTA conference
Stewart Smith: Speaking at VITTA victorian IT teachers association inc conference
Warrick Wynne: vitta-2007-rethinking-education
Camilla Elliott: VITTA 2007 - review
Lauren O'Grady: VITTA conference presentation 2007
Ed Tech Crew: Podcast on the VITTA conference
Helen Marotta: What a week
Anne Baird: Stephen Heppell and Future Trends
Anne Baird: John Pearce - Inspirational Teacher

An ongoing debate arising out of the VITTA conference is still raising questions about tech in schools. People seem to be pinpointing a tension between the "tech is here, we must use it everwhere" with a growing sense that just 'using' tech is not enough - we have to actively encourage development too.

Google has stepped up, and in to this debate with the GHOP, a program for secondary school students. It's grown out of their Summer of Code initiative. This is significant - this is a call to arms in the revolution - encourage and support real participation in the creation of technology for everyone, not just market consumption of shrinkwrapped blingware and technogadgets.

If you ask me, that's where the real revolution is.