  At BETT 2012, Education Secretary Michael Gove delivered a keynote speech in which he discussed many aspects of education, from the state of the ICT curriculum through to brain-computer interfaces. One area of discussion which surprised many was the importance Gove placed on games based learning, explaining how an ongoing pilot study into games based learning in schools by Stanford University had generated “some of the most successful (results) ever seen”.
Read more...  Education Secretary, Michael Gove praised Espresso Education and its co-founder and CEO Lewis Bronze for bringing learning to life during his opening speech at BETT 2012 last week.
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Now in its 28th year, the world’s leading event for educational technology, BETT, today opened its doors to welcome the first of the thousands of visitors expected during the four-day event. Joining them was the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, who was at BETT to deliver the opening speech. bee-it’s own Bryan Plumb went along to find out more...  Education secretary Michael Gove has acknowledged that current ICT teaching in schools is out of date and that computer science has a place in secondary education, according to the Guardian newspaper today.
Read more...  At a time of significant uncertainty and funding cuts, the results of the new 2011 British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA) research indicates that by 2012/13 nearly half of all schools anticipate more than 50 per cent of pupil-time being exposed to teaching and learning using ICT.
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