Blog posts March 2012
M(ums)Power, frugal innovation and the journey to simplicity
There’s been a lot of media interest recently in the idea of frugal innovation, defined in this BBC World Service programme as ‘keeping things simple, and looking hard at what people actually need.’ The concept has been inspired by the kinds of innovations to be found in developing countries such as India, where it is sometimes referred to as Jugaad, a Hindi word meaning ‘an improved solution to a problem using scarce resources’. Both ‘affordable’ and ‘flexible’, frugal innovation is different from top-down, centralist...
Join our online conversation with High Tech High at 16:00 on Wednesday, 18 April!
At 16:00 on Wednesday, 18 April, teachers and leaders from UK schools will be talking about how to tackle the challenges they're facing with staff from High Tech High, a group of schools in California whose innovative approach to learning has led to 100% of their students being accepted by a university or two-year college.
What it's all about
If you've participated in one of these conversations before, you'll know what I'm talking about. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about,...
Boris Johnson’s Guardian interview makes the connection between the riots and education once again
When the riots happened everyone was talking about young people's disengagement, in school and in society. People looked to educators for the answer, because if young people aren’t engaged in their learning in school - and evidence shows they aren't - this affects not only their academic achievement, but also their future engagement in work, and in their community. The international evidence points to a widening disconnect between what interests, motivates and engages young people in their ‘real...
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