Category Archives: Events
Frontiers without Learning *updated*
The Learning Without Frontiers Summit London has been canned. Graham Brown-Martin has been canned from LWF. The reasons for these unfortunate changes are still yet to emerge, and I do not want to spend time eulogising Graham (others will do … Continue reading
RethinkingICT
My presentation and script for the #Rethinking ICT event on the 25th of June. Thanks to Chris Leach for organising and inviting me to talk, and for making this debate essential to all of us who care about EdTech. ” … Continue reading
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Tagged agitation, catalyst, education, ICT, national curriculum, onschool, policy, pupose/ed, rethinkingICT, schools
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A Poor Show for Academies
I have become increasingly disturbed about the Academies Show, which I attended recently. I went for three reasons: ONSchool, the free school proposal I am leading, would be an academy and I wanted to understand the broader context for the … Continue reading
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Tagged academies, academies show, academisation, education, freeschools, innovation, onschool, policy
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Sonning Un-Common
I spent an afternoon at Sonning Common Primary School – in the Year 2 class of Matt Lovegrove. Firstly, Matt invited me to teach his class – and we discussed what we I might do using twitter direct messages. When … Continue reading
Day of Action
Given that my local school is going to be closed for the strike on Thursday 30th June – I am thinking of organising a day of learning and discovery for some of the local kids (including my own). I’d like … Continue reading
Opening Minds – RSA Academy Tipton
I spent yesterday morning at the RSA Academy in Tipton. For a range of reasons, some of which I will explain here, I was blown away by what I saw. Firstly, my in-laws live in the area, and I know … Continue reading
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Tagged black country, opening minds, rsa, RSA academy, teachmeet, tipton
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National Curriculum Review ’11- Transition Group findings
Last night, I was part of an event to be part of the #NCR11 debate about the forthcoming National Curriculum Review. It was held in Oxford, and hosted by BrainPOP UK and Pearson, and the range and number of attendees … Continue reading
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Tagged brainpop, brainpopuk, dfe, national curriculum, ncr11, pearson, policy, schools, transition, uk
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#NCR11 – talking about a new National Curriculum.
I started my teacher training in 1991, just as the National Curriculum came into life. I now find myself a parent, involved with local schools, and very much part of the education sector in the UK – feeling the wind … Continue reading
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