Dick Sblog

I’ve just been to the iEARN UK national conference – fantastic. Seldom has so much been achieved with so little resource! Why on earth this organisation doesn’t receive core funding from the DfES and the Dept for International Development, I just don’t know.
One of the other delegates was from Radiowaves – a company providing an [...]

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Check out the recently published Rocard Report on Science Education.
Michell Rocard was invited by the European Commission to set up a group of experts to look at the state of science eduction in the light of the EU-wide decline in young peoples’ interest in the study of key sciences and mathematics.  Their starting point was [...]

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A nice piece of work has come out of the DfES highlighting issues around ‘invisible children’ and outlining some classroom strategies to deal with them. It looks at the experience of pupils pupils aged between 7 and 11 who fall behind in Key Stage 2.  ffi see the egovmonitor

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On the upside – according to new research, the UK is ranked first in Europe for IT user skills and above the average in IT ’specialist’ skills. According to the Commission’s research, one in four of the UK’s total workforce has IT user skills, compared with an EU average of just over one in [...]

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Check out the Vermont MIDI project – a 12 year old programme that encourages and supports students in composing and arranging music. A community of professional composers, teachers, pre-service educators, and students engage in mentoring and online discussion of student work. (With thanks to BBC radio 4’s digital planet podcast)

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Two articles caught my eye last week. One, was a critique of our target-driven management culture (’Make a decision? We’re two dumbed-down’, Simon Caulkin, Observer Business & Media, 27.05.07). I quote, “… targets are a classic substitute for the hard work and thought needed to understand real demand and how to organise work to satisfy [...]

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