Blog posts April 2011
Nearly-live blogging from #purposedpsi - growing enquiry through the cracks in the pavement
by Alec Patton
At my table (@pjjames, @LizRich, @IanYorkston, @Darney-ictteach, @Nikable) we're talking about the environment and preoccupations of schools, and how to grow a space for a rich environment for education within a standards-driven, stressed institution.
Here's some (rather loosely transcribed) quotes from the table:
First, teaching tips from @kvnmcl :
- doing speaking and listening sitting under a table -...
Internocracy and unpaid interns
By Raj Cheema
Great to see Internocracy in the Guardian today talking about the unfairness of unpaid interns - backed by its latest research. The research, carried out by YouGov on behalf of Internocracy – a social enterprise that develops work experience schemes for employers – found that 17% of UK businesses had taken on interns to use as a cheap source of labour, while 95% of the 218 UK managers who responded agreed that interns were "useful to their organisation".
The Internocracy study also found that only 12% of company managers and 10% of young people knew unpaid...
What Masterchef can tell us about project-based learning
My partner and I don't own a television, so we tend to watch programmes in iplayer-enabled week-long marathons. This week we're catching up on Masterchef. As it happens, I'm also hard at work on the guide to enquiry- and project-based learning Learning Futures is creating with High Tech High. This means I bring a very particular perspective to the much-loved competitive cooking show, and within it, I've found four lessons for...
