Charles Leadbeater is the man of the moment. A video from 2005 Which chimes with this chap. Clay Shirky Back to the UK, Charles Leadbeater’s 21 ideas. From the Innnovation Website What’s Next? – Page [...]
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An interesting piece in the Guardian this morning. Education: Early-years writing lesson ‘do no good’. Amazingly it needed the invocation of the ‘Freedom of Information Act’ for this little gem to see the light of day. Dialogue! What dialogue? Only Idealogue. Fascinating article in today’s Guardian about the research of Kathy Sylva – Professor of Educational Psychology at Oxford University. ‘For a poor child, not going to pre-school was like tying their hands behind their back for the rest of primary school.’ Guru of the Playgroup I’d always liked the idea of creating comics with children. There’s a great piece of software (Comic Life) that John Johnston at Sandaig has used but it’s Mac only. Look at their latest Sports Day Comics here. I saw this piece yesterday from Mr Kp and now there’s a web2.0 site called Comiqs that does [...] Link to Jim Knight speech here. A rather underwhelming notion of ICT ‘basics’ appeared in this speech. ‘We need to ensure that all children are trained in the basics: using a word processor, managing a database, editing a website.’ And teachers are ‘guardians’ of a subject that children more readily understand than we do a [...] Read about their use here. Spotted this one on Ewan Macintosh’s Blog. Sir Ken Robinson Listen to his speech at the RSA. The World Turned Upside Down This poem mentioned on Doug Dickinson’s Blog is worth a read. The Things We Steal From Children By Dr John Edwards If [...] |
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