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…)
This weekend we went away to Lewes with 3 young people who were interested in campaigning on pan-London issues. Aakash, Isatu and Lara were from the NW and SE and had only met once at a consultation for the Government of London with Tessa Jowell. (more…)
Was the chant of students, teachers and community members at the fifth Value Life march in Haringey today. The Youth Act team went to support the work of this group that started in 2003 with Youth Act training. It was early starts all round (more…)
On Thursday I went to the first 2gether festival in Shoreditch. The festival was an attempt to bring practioners together to talk about how to use digital media to bring about social change. (more…)
On 23rd June 2008 Ade and I took a group of young people from the Youth Act Graduate Council to a consultation by the Government Office of London with Rt Hon Tessa Jowell who were trying to ascertain what the governments priorities for Young people should be.
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