Learning can no longer be seen as something that is done to children by teachers
Wednesday, July 16th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Health, Media, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »And I could not agree more. A different approach for teaching our children is a report published by Charles Ledbeater and covered in the Guardian The word relationship drops in as does that qualifications aren't the only goal of an education, ...
De-schooling Society
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Participation, Society, Trends | 4 Comments »Having lunch with a friend Sophia Parker, ex-Demos. She is the author of Unlocking Innovation. Why citizens hold the key to public service reform And perhaps also of relevance The Journey to the Interface. How public service ...
Opening the doors of the modern age
Saturday, April 26th, 2008 Posted in Books, Culture, Distribution, Economics, Education, News, Philosophy, Quotes, Society | No Comments »Johannes Gutenberg was indeed the key to opening the door of the modern age. I watched a programme last night presented by Stephen Fry taking us through the story of printing and its father Johannes Gutenberg. Stephen Fry asks why ...
How do I reach Jan Chipchase @ Nokia and why is Apple so bad?
Monday, April 14th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Strategy, Travel, Trends, Web/Tech | 4 Comments »If you need to reach Jan Chipchase, the best, and sometimes only, way to get him is on his cellphone. The first time I spoke to him last fall, he was at home in his apartment in Tokyo. ...
Creative Britain - A nation of shopkeepers?
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 Posted in Culture, Darwin, Economics, Education, Gaming, Generation C, Government & Politics, Networks, Participation, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | 2 Comments »Vic Keegan wrote an impassioned piece recently about the creative industries in the UK. Vic writes When the 1850 public libraries bill was going through parliament, opposition came mainly from MPs representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. ...
Evolution of SMLXL
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in 7th Mass Media, Advertising, Books, Broadcast, Citizen journalism, Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Distribution, Economics, Education, Engagement Civil Society, Engagement Education, Engagement Marketing, Engagement Mobile, Engagement Organisations, Engagement Politics, Engagement Research, Engagement Sciences, Generation C, Government & Politics, Marketing, Media, Mobile, Music, Networks, News, Newspapers, Participation, Philosophy, Politics, Retail, Science, Social Networks, Society, Sociology, Strategy, Trends, Web/Tech, Weblogs, iPTV | No Comments »In 2002, I founded a company called SMLXL - short for Small Medium Large XtraLarge. Its focus was and still is - how do businesses and organisations meaningfully engage in a commercial or social agenda with their audiences. We were some ...
Learnings from YouTube
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008 Posted in Culture, Education, Generation C, Media, Participation, Society, Trends, Web/Tech | No Comments »Earlier this month, I served as a respondent on a panel at USC's 24/7 DIY Video Event on a panel during which Juhasz shared her experiences. I felt that both her pedagogical approach and her critical perspective on ...
The Engaged Learning Community
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Participation, Social Networks, Society, Web/Tech | No Comments »The Horizon Report examines emerging technologies that could/will play a major role in transforming education. Educational uses of the two topics on the far-term horizon, collective intelligence and social operating systems, are understandably rarer; however, there are ...
What Age are we in?
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Darwin, Education, Engagement Marketing, Ethics, Generation C, Government & Politics, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Quotes | 2 Comments »I was in Amsterdam yesterday working with the staff from Freedom Lab in Amsterdam - probing, exploring, discussing some of the major themes that preoccupy me. And one of the questions that came up yesterday was - What Age ...
New Media and the Creative Industries In the UK
Saturday, December 22nd, 2007 Posted in Convergence, Culture, Economics, Education, Engagement Marketing, Generation C, Government & Politics, Law, Media, Networks, Philosophy, Social Networks, Society, Television, Trends, Web/Tech, iPTV | 3 Comments »The Culture, Media and Sport Committee report Opening paragraph of summary The pace of change is so rapid that solutions to some of the problems that we sought to address have already begun to emerge. However, at the ...
