InvolverAn interesting perspective on what makes change happen from Matthew Taylor:
If we want people to help save the planet we need to start giving them clearer signals and incentives. But the biggest obstacle might be the green movement itself. More
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Scientists have warned of an impending economic catastrophe, warning that the UK is reaching a possible ‘Social Media Event Event Horizon’. More on this blog
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extract: “Environmental campaigners also supported the warning at the Conference, which was also liveblogged, Tweeted, streamed on YouTube and moblogged on Qik. Green Web activist Greena McGreen pointed out that the noise pollution caused by large groups of geeks, gathering in a single place and spouting incessant bollocks about Web 2.0, was damaging to wildlife over a wide area.” :o)
HT of secondary school in Suffolk: Here extract: “…… It is not that any of us has anything against pupil voice, just as it is hard to argue against fitness or fresh air: both are good things which we like very much. We just don’t need laws telling us when to exercise or how to breathe. Most of us, after all, have school councils that have moved beyond the traditional areas of regularly demanding the abandonment of school uniform and complaining about the toilets….
………. Similarly, the best use of our school council’s time may not be telling us what they think of our health and safety or equal opportunities policies. It might be that we should be challenging them to come up with new ideas for helping the community, or new approaches to teaching and learning.”
interesting perspective, maybe we should respond…
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This from the Washington Post about 21st Century teaching..
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By Jay Mathews
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, November 21, 2008; 6:17 AM
Only six weeks have passed since my last cranky diatribe about teaching what are called “21st-century skills” in our schools. I think the 21st-century skills movement is mostly a pipe dream, promoted by well-meaning people who embrace the idea of modernity but fail to consider how these allegedly new and important lessons can be taught by the usual victims of such schemes, classroom teachers.
Now I am forced to calm down,
Something we need to track? Details are here, and there is also the FutureLab conference with a useful list of contacts
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According to an Associated Press story, a Tokyo woman is in jail today for logging on to a virtual world and deleting her virtual husband’s virtual identity.
The woman, a 43-year-old piano teacher, was evidently upset that her online companion in a virtual world called “Maple Story”