...Well, thinking about transforming education anyway. GETIdeas is Cisco's latest attempt to engage education leaders around the world in some meaningful debate by having them publish their own blogs, and comment on those of others, as well as accessing tons of learning debate and content. I can see the appeal for those who haven't made the plunge into the online debates yet, within the relatively safe walls of Cisco's platform.
Before joining Channel 4 I was commissioned to open the debate with an extended blog post, designed to tempt you in. It's on seeing what would happen if we really embraced the culture 'out there' in our schools. Debate's thin no the ground, though, as might be expected for a new site trying to find its feet.
But this itself reveals the biggest barrier to educational change we have - time. It can take most blogs nearly two years to find their audience, their niche, for the author(s) to find their voice and get some degree of debate going on. Cisco aim to cut back this time, obviously. Part of the challenge is getting those administrators and decision-makers who, thus far, have failed to engage in the online discussions around learning to reach out beyond the relative comfort of the 'safety' of GETIdeas, and explore some of those hyperlinks I've peppered through my piece, at least.
Here, we hit the second batch of time that's only ever more crowded than yesterday or last year: personal time to invest in reading, thinking and then engaging in online debate. It's made harded by Cisco's slightly clunky blog platform which means you and I have to create an account and log in before commenting.
Finally, it'll be interesting to see, over time, if the likes of John Connell can encourage educators who are not just those in International or American schools in the Middle East, Africa and the Far East to engage on the site. This kind of seeded participant would be enough, perhaps, to draw those of us already having the debates into a new platform to discuss things with new voices.
For the first time NowPublic have done their metrics testing of who, in the UK, has the most reach in terms of broadband broadcasting, and I'm delighted to be pitched at No. 7 amongst some stellar company.
Worthy of note is that I'm three places ahead of big bro, Neil (well, you've got to have some brotherly competition, no?) and a bevvy of Guardian blogerati, and just ahead of comic legend Stephen Fry and BBC political blogger Nick Robinson. Also blushing to be ahead of the guy who really pushed me into working on my tod, Euan Semple.
There are some other great blogs and sites to try out there, and vary your reading list a bit. I bet that's what people are saying about my blog (who/how/why the hell..?)
Pic; Red boxes
Kate Humble checks out World War II shipwrecks and the dive team searches for new species
The team of explorers travel through some of the most remote islands of Micronesia.
It's a race against time for the deep divers as they continue their search for new species
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It's a week late, perhaps, for some topical teaching but astounding nevertheless. Der Spiegel has published several collections of old colour photos, but this set of WW1 trench warfare in colour just reminds us that the world wasn't played out in black and white before the 50s.
Earlier this week the UK's very own "Nationalist Party", the BNP, had the misfortune to leak its member list, showing the names and addresses of racists, fascists and those who "don't want that kind of person taking our jobs". It's been citizen-created mashups of this data that have made the news.
To republish the list would be illegal, so newspapers such as the Guardian printed the numerical stats on line-art maps. Far from breaking the law, it was crowdsourcing that came up with a better solution, both allowing us to see how many BNP-ers are on our doorstep without revealing their names and exact locations. Cue the anonymous, but powerful, BNP member Google Heatmap, which has since allowed our Government ministers to realise the pockets where local politics lets people down.
These are some of the subversive uses of technology that keep an eye on money and power that we are keen to support further through 4iP. We've got a few on the boil, so keep your eyes peeled for them.
Thanks to Stuart on the 38minutes blog for highlighting it.
Nothing turns me snarky more than the assertion that 'we' are but hapless Ned Luds by comparison to 'them', the bright young 'digital natives' (eurgh...) that make up Generation 'Y' (double eurgh), the connected generation who "live through the screen" (pass me a mop and bucket). Such clichés can be heard in almost every educational, future-gazing keynote and workshop one might care to attend and, for my money, are worth nothing more than the potential for a jolly good round of bullshit bingo to keep us entertained during yet another "21st Century Learning" tyrade.
But I've found a great piece on the brilliant and long-standing Mobile Youth blog which explains clearly why I find the gen-y stuff so irrelevant and enraging:
Consider, for example, the parents - are they not also a connected generation? Doesn’t almost every 30-39 year old executive and office worker live out most of their days staring at a screen? On the way to the office they stare at their blackberries, followed by 9 hours of staring at a larger screen. The more active of this demographic will squeeze in an hour at the gym where, you guessed it, they stare at a screen. Evening activity involves starting at a screen.
Almost every economically active individual today is “connected”, so the fact that it is only youth that are connected, is a myth.
Hurrah. Now all we need to do is work out whether the average keynote presenter is 'economically active' when their audiences appreciate the hot air rising from their rhetoric.
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