Do schools today kill creativity? part deux

I should have waited a bit before blogging my earlier entry, until I’d seen this TED talk by Sir Ken Robinson (a fellow Brit I’d never heard of). Makes a similar point to Michael Rosen but with a lot more power and in less than half the time (20 minutes). (See Ken’s Wikipedia entry and [...]

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The end of school as we know it? Or will it be just more of the same?

This caught my eye: Knowsley Council in Merseyside, has abolished the use of the word school to describe secondary education in the borough. It is taking the dramatic step of closing all of its eleven existing secondary schools by 2009. As part of a £150m government-backed rebuilding programme, they will reopen as seven state-of-the-art, round-the-clock, [...]

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Map of future forces affecting education

Via Information Aesthetics (a mesmerizing blog, a visual feast), comes this link to an interesting map at Knowledgeworks Foundation & The Institute for the Future Powered by ScribeFire.

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Did you know? A presentation

FarrFeed » Blog Archive » “Shift Happens” Presentation I saw Karl Fisch’s fascinating presentation a while back, but was amazed to see its slick new look. I discovered this thanks to John Farr’s excellent blog. Karl’s presentation and Scott McCleod’s movie have really gone viral, because John Farr is not an edtech blogger and lives [...]

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