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Technology and participation

I’m going to be facilitating this seminar, it looks pretty interesting:

The Learner Voice and Technology workshop will be held on Tuesday 26th February at the Futurelab Offices in Bristol. http://www.futurelab.org.uk/about_us/contact_location

The workshop aims to explore the potential of technology to engage learner voice in the primary, secondary and FE/HE sectors.

We will take as our starting point the methods already being used across these sectors with and without technology.

To help get a feel for this event I would read our Handbook on Learner Voice that we completed 2 years ago… http://www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/documents/handbooks/learner_voice.pdf

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SCUK features in very best of journalism

Just saw this, which mentions us, which is nice.

Apparently it was written by a “Stroud News and Journal Reporter”, but there are a few tiny clues that it might actually just be a press release cut and psted onto their website….

Not only have them managed to leave in the ‘Notes to the Editor’ and contact details, but also the ‘Please think before printing this email message’.

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Citizenship Survey

There’s some really interesting stuff in this.

Amongst many other things it looks at how much influence people believe they can have on their locality and Great Britain, what they believe to be important British values, how discriminated against people feel and how much they mix with other ethnicities.

Some facts that I thought were interesting is that Africans (living here) feel they have the most influence on British society, 26-35 year olds are generally the most cynical and dissaffected, the elderly are the most trusting and lots of people lie about how much they mix socially with people from other races.

Unfortunately it only goes down to 16 year olds, so I’ll be writing to them asking whether they might extend the survey next time to include school-aged children.

This is the link.

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Ofsted interviewing school councils

I was just having a look on the TES’s forums and this issue seemed to be quite popular.  Is it something we could produce a resource on?  I’m sure it’s something teachers would really value.  Maybe it would just be a short one that could be downloaded for free (if people give us their email address).

The foum thread is here: [TES] What questions will Ofsted ask my School Council?

I will also be monitoring this thread: [TES] How can I evaluate the effectiveness of  my school council?

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VB: Children are Unbeatable campaign

Children are Unbeatable! Alliance campaigns for equal legal protection against violence for children. They are working on letting as many children and young people as possible know about many exciting new opportunities for children and young people to become involved in the campaign.

Website: www.childrenareunbeatable.org.uk/children

Waiting for article from young person about the campaign.

Mark

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BETT: Anti-bullying software for London students

Some 2,600 schools in London are set to get e-safety software though the London Grid for Learning (ITPro reports).

Online and computer safety software is set to help protect a million London students from inappropriate content and cyber-bullying.

The London Grid for Learning (LGfL), a group of 33 local authorities which provides a common learning platform to schools, announced at the BETT conference in London today
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