Citizenship Foundation Voices

The other night I went to Education Unbound 2008, a debate on ‘how social technologies are blurring formal and informal learning‘. The panel comprised Dan Sutch (Futurelab), David Noble (Hillside School, Fife), Andy Gibson (School of Everything) and Catherine Howell (Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies). It was chaired by Matt Locke, Commissioning Editor at Channel 4.

As a 50.0 year-old I’m not particularly attuned to the finer points of web 2, so this took a while to assimilate, but some points stuck out that were particularly significant for citizenship. (more…)

It is often said that today’s young people are turned on to causes but turned off from politics. Except of course, the disaffected. They are neither turned on to causes nor drawn to politics. What’s worse they may have absolutely no sense of the connection between causes, politics and their own life, because except for the microcosm of their own experience, someone else ‘owns’ society: makes the rules, enforces them… and appears to leave them out. (more…)