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community into Community

Posted in Policy, tagged #purposedpsi, community, David Gauntlett, Democratic Intellect, Education Policy, fred garnett, future-building, John Seeley Brown, Making is Connecting, New Culture of Learning, permissionless, purposed, schools, Silwood Cyber Centre, Slow Citizenship, Social Justice, TeachMeet on May 2, 2011| Leave a Comment »

#purposedpsi Sheffield April 30th

This is a post expanding on my talk at the Purpos/ed Event for a wonderful bunch of educational ‘Instigators’ at Sheffield. The slides are on slideshare and I will expand on those points and include some of the discussions from the day here. Doug Belshaw had asked me to keep it simple and to look at Keri Facer’s new book on Learning Futures. Keri looks at a number of issues relating to how schools might be organised in 2035 but the point that appealed to me most was the one of ‘slow citizenship‘ as it tied in with my Purpos/ed post discussing the Scottish notion of the Democratic Intellect and our complete (English) inability to make the link between the life we want and the responsibilities of citizenship.

Keri’s vision of slow citizenship, or taking time to build the future you want, requires ‘sustained commitment to the lived communities, local neighbourhoods & social relationships through which we live‘ (more…)

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The Obliquity of Policy

Posted in Policy, tagged #BectaX, 2010 Election, Cambridge Primary Review, collaboration, Confused of Calcutta, CPD, Education Policy, Ewan Mcintosh, heutagogy, hung parliament, John Seeley Brown, Learning is Delicious, Obliquity, participation, Peter Whatmore, Power of Pull, Pull, social media, Web 2.0 on May 5, 2010| 2 Comments »

& The Pull of Learning

I started these posts by looking at the outcomes of #BectaX and identified three possible policy outcomes that would reflect the debates and proposals that group of motivators and builders came up with; Infrastructure, Collaboration & Participation. I suggested wrapping them up in a Web 2.0 programme of CPD for all educational professionals. In election week, with a plethora of suggestions for education policies post-election, I am going to look at how Obliquity might help and why learning is a Pull that fits well in an emerging world of social media.

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