On Monday 22 November, we are lucky enough to be hosting the first UK screening of the Oscar shortlisted film ‘Waiting for Superman‘ that has rocked the US education system and is set to send the debate about Free Schools in the UK into orbit. We know that the film will generate a huge amount [...]
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Let’s be proud of our schools – set them free
We all have a memory of that place we call school. A moment of insight or fun; a teacher that inspired; the classroom; the sports field; an art room; a playground; a science experiment; the awful toilets. Our childhood in our schools has for many a particular and enduring place in our memories. And schools [...]
Free Schools Thinking launched
At a packed event of 150 teachers, educationalists, MPs, designers, contractors and policy makers at the Houses of Parliament yesterday – hosted by Graham Stuart, Chair of the Education Select Committee – we launched our latest publication Free Schools Thinking. It comes on a historic day – when the British government announced its Comprehensive Spending [...]
New government – the first ten days
In the first of our podcasts Ty reflects on the first 10 days of the new government, the newly launched coalition programme for government that shares some more detail about schools policy and the rumoured cuts to the Building Schools for the Future budget. Note: please excuse the wobbly camerawork – its our first one!
Becta X – rated
Ewan McIntosh the mercurial host of yesterday’s #Bectax event suggested the 150 participants – taken from across education, tech and media industry – have a well earned Easter break before reflecting on the conference. So I’ll take his word and blog the morning after! The event (hats off to BECTA and Katz Kieley @katzy by [...]
Why school environments matter
As part of our launch of our School Environments Charter, we asked an ICT teacher from Hamble College in Southampton (who Ty met by chance at an SSAT event) to get his Digital Leader students to do a short poem and video about why they thought school environments matter. As you can see from the [...]
BECTA X to Nick Gibb – social media in action
I had a great chat with Katz Kieley – the mastermind of a fantastic programme of events in the digital world called B-tween. She has been asked by BECTA to set up a collaborative event at the end of March called BECTA X. My chat with her is now a blog on their site
Thinktank 1.0 vs 2.0
I’ve been reflecting on the Centre’s first week and wanted to share a bit of the thinking behind the creation of a web 2.0 thinktank and how that might be differ from the way other think tanks and organisations are currently working and engaging with people in the field. The image below reflects the contrasts [...]
Using social media to change education policy
I’m speaking at the Be2Camp session that forms part of Social Media Week on Monday, and I’m working on what I’m going to say. In setting up The Centre for School Design, we were helped by Paul Evans – a social media geek with an interest in how interactive technologies may change the way that [...]
