Blog posts August 2011
Oliver Quinlan's great post about "independence time" to his (8-year-old) students
Primary school teacher Oliver Quinlan has written a great post about giving his eight-year-old students a half an hour of 'independence time' at the start of the day, to pursue whatever they want. His school gets a lot of visitors, here's what happened when one came in:
One day in particular a visiting teacher had been talking to one boy about the 3D buildings he was designing using Google Sketchup, she was visibly...
Love Lewisham: A Service Analysis of Public Sector Innovation
By Dr. Alison Prendiville
In 2004 Lewisham’s Environment Department launched Love Lewisham, a website specially developed to address particular community problems such as environmental crime, fly tipping and graffiti. Through the use of mobile devices, smart phones and Pocket PC’s the scheme allows the public and staff to upload photographs of environmental crime straight to the specially designated Love Lewisham site; here the council staff are able to deal rapidly with operational issues and provide news on its removal with a photographic up-date. This scheme has been hailed for...
Favourite service #1: Crisis Skylight
I have been thinking about my favourite public services. I want to try to draw out the way in which public services are changing – and will need to change in the future – and this seems like the simplest way to do it.
This week, I want to mention Crisis Skylight, a set of education and training centres for homeless people. I haven’t been to Skylight London for a long time, but I think of it often because it sums up something really important to the future of public services. Skylight...
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