do schools kill creativity?
Sir Ken Robinson gives a challenging talks on education and creativity to TED. Go make a cuppa and spend 20min watching.
Category: Society
42
I don’t get it. 42 days without charge seems like a very very long time. The UN Declaration of Human Rights states: Article 3: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person. Article 6. Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. Article 7. All are equal Read More …
Revolution in Childhood?
BBC 4 has just shown an excellent exploration and discussion of childhood as part of the Child of Our Time series which is following a cohort of children from birth until age 20. Tonight’s discussion topics ranged from ‘play’ and ‘risk’ to ‘communication’ between adults and children and between children and ‘how time is spent’ Read More …
Byron Report published
Dr Tanya Byron has published her report into safer internet use and gaming. You can read the report HERE. This is the executive summary bullets: The internet and video games are very popular with children and young people and offer a range of opportunities for fun, learning and development. But there are concerns over potentially Read More …
informal education in a digital age?
Leaning and Teaching Scotland have just announced what they think the markers fo excellence in literacy are for the 21st century… and the definition of texts is:novels, short stories, plays, poems, reference texts, the spoken word, charts, maps, graphs and timetables, advertisements, promotional leaflets, comics, newspapers and magazines, CVs, letters and e-mails, films, games and Read More …
ill informed
I’m fed up with people who don’t know what they are talking about jumping on band wagons because it suits their purposes. Question Time (BBC) over the past few weeks has seen a whole load of people calling for a referendum on the new European ‘constitution’. It is painfully obvious that the vast majority of Read More …
When does freedom of speech become oppression?
Tonight saw the Oxford Union surrounded by protesting students. They were up in arms against the appearance of two right wingers, a politician and and a ‘historian’, at a debate. So far so good. But the protesters stopped the debate going ahead. People protesting against fascism stopped an open, public debate. I’m sorry but I Read More …