Huge archive of northern women’s history goes online

Archivists and academics combine to make 80,000 documents and photographs available at the click of a computer key

Tech Weekly Live: Tech City Talk – Who Will Build the UK’s Future Digital Economy?

On Monday 10 October, The Guardian's Tech Weekly will host the first of its series of Tech City Talks, tackling the biggest issues in the UK's future digital economy. First under the microscope: the state of our digital skills.

Fallen City: could a game help us find a solution to society’s ills?

A forthcoming game from Channel 4 seeks to analyse how our cities might be mended by empowering communities, writes Keith Stuart

We’re all film-makers now – and the Smith review must recognise that

Don Boyd: Studying film is still often seen as lightweight. But in 2011 it's arguably as important as literature and science

Steve Fuller: it’s time for Humanity 2.0

Steve Fuller tells Ian Tucker why we are moving away from seeing ourselves as 'normal' humans as we increasingly embrace technological and medical advances – if we can afford them

Mindshapes talks kids’ apps, character creation and iPad education

Stuart Dredge: Rethinking Hickory Dickory Dock and Jack In The Beanstalk for app-happy children

This week’s arts diary

Paul Andrew Williams's new film Song for Marion finishes location shooting, Jeanette Winterson tweets the Bible and Andrew Lloyd Webber lets schools take on Cats and Phantom

Bafta brings Young Game Designers workshop to London

Keith Stuart: Bafta's second annual Young Game Designers competition is in full swing, and has already seen video game creation workshops around the country. Later this month, it's coming to the Eurogamer Expo in London

Education: the virtual world can help students and teachers

The internet has transformed the educational landscape, giving students more scope to access information and offering them the opportunity to collaborate in research projects online, says Aleks Krotoski

Schoolteacher who worked as stripper uncovered by students

Sex education teacher Benedict Garrett, who stripped under the alias Johnny Anglais, and befriended students on Facebook, told he may continue teaching

Daniel McCracken obituary

Author of hugely successful textbooks on computing

Kids today need a licence to tinker

Forget the dysfunctional approach of the national curriculum, we need to open young minds to the creative possibilities of computing, writes John Naughton