I am delighted to say that after a meeting with Charles Crook, the Director of the Learning Science Research Institute (LSRI) from October 2011, there is the open invitation to use their facilities for community events. The LSRI at the university of Nottingham has meeting rooms laden with monitoring equipment to capture, stream and archive ...
Although a fairly narrow view on the barriers to implementing assessment for learning, the cross section of views shared on the Google Document have been excellent as a starting point for discussion. The above Wordle is a helpful representation of those contributions. I have removed the following words from the visual: assessment, formative, teachers, learning ...
The inaugural Purpos/ed Summit for Instigators took place in Sheffield on the 30th April. Doug Belshaw and Andy Kemp did a really great job of gathering a bunch of enthusastic educators from all sorts of backgrounds to this, the first of many face-to-face gatherings. We all had the chance to listen talks including short 3 ...
During the recent Purpos/ed Conference in Sheffield we were given a smart little book of all of the 500 word articles published during the March campaign. The books were created with the help of Scholastic and their We Are Writers service. In one of the sessions we discussed how online debate and face-to-face conferences would ...
Defining the purpose of education in less than 500 words may seem like an easy task but, as I sit here gazing at my almost blank computer screen looking for inspiration, I have come to the realisation that it much easier to define what the purpo... ...
Six or seven years ago my answer to this question would probably have been different. I am now both a teacher and a father, in fact I have been for nearly five years. I am both education consumer and provider. My son has just begun full time education and my perspective on what it should ...