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EdTech Item 1 – The EpidiascopeMy elementary school was in a neglected quarter of a working-class district in a northern town in England. The headteacher there had taught my grandfather, the infants learned to write on slates, the juniors’ wooden desks still had inkwells filled by the ink monitor each week. 

I will never forget the magic of sitting in a darkened classroom and seeing leaves, conkers, a dark brown nut, or text from the pages of a book projected large onto a wall via the hot, Heath Robinson magic of the Victorian epidiascope.

Real time, real life projection and sharing that I would not see again in a classroom for another half century all came with the arrival of the visualiser.

Pros: Instant shared magic projecting anything book size or smaller.

Cons: The Epidiascope was very dim, huge, required total blackout, and even enabled students to get up to mischief in the dark!

EdTech Item 2 – RadioMy other abiding technology memory from elementary school was the radio monitor. Not a true radio, just a huge speaker in a wooden case, on a metal stand with wheels.

It had to be plugged into another socket on the wall, tapping into the magic provided by Radio Relay, and the cable service that also supplied the wireless to my living room at home. 

There were four channels to choose from, courtesy of the BBC, whose role was “To enrich people’s lives with programs and services that inform, educate and entertain”.

The education part meant that the school switch never moved from the Home Service and its daily Schools Broadcasts.

Whether it was ‘Music and Movement’ which saw us careering around the hall, or ‘Singing Together’, which did just what it said on the tin, we loved our school broadcasts, which carried on being loved by generations for many years after I left.

Pros: You knew it was going to be professional content from the BBC, and it gave you a feeling of belonging to a wider world.

Cons: It happened in real-time, so required precise organization of both monitor and children which as you can imagine often wreaked havoc in the classroom!