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Excerpt: Image attribution to Bill Gracey on Flickr under this CC Licence ‘The revolution doesn’t happen when society adopts new tools, it happens when society adopts new behaviours’ Clay Shirkey That pithy sentence uttered in the new UsNow film couldn’t be more true, especially in the world of innovation in education that this blog constantly addresses. So far this year I have been pulling focus on informal learning outside the wire of traditional institutions – in 2009 I am going to be more concerned with looking at the research and opinion that surrounds this arena and focus on highlighting and amplifying ideas and practice…
Outside the Wire – What lies ahead – Possible solutions and pointers? Making the map…
December 30, 2008
in advisory, AST, BECTA, BSF, Continual Professional Development, Digital Divide, Digital Literacy, Digital Media, distributed networking, Educational Change, informal learning, Innovation, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, QCA, TDA, training, video, Web 2.0
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Interview with Ian Lynch about INGOTS
May 24, 2007
in Educational Change, Innovation, KS1, KS2, KS3, open source, pedagogy, Peer to Peer, Personalised Learning, QCA, training
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Excerpt: This month I talked to Ian Lynch about the INGOTS qualification given accreditation status by the QCA. INGOTs are International Grades in Open Technologies. They are a coherent set of certificates providing a progression route from complete beginner with learning disabilities to the level of secondary school leavers. They are designed to support international and social inclusion and to reflect contemporary learning through participation in on-line communities.What is unique about INGOTS is that they are to do with competencies and can be started by children as young as 5. At the higher levels pupils are encouraged to engage socially…
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