Today's Fresh Blogs...

• More thoughts on using social media in business

  Published: July 26, 2007, 8:10 am

  Tags: Communication Tools, Giving Information, Googlejuice, Leadership Amp Management, World Of Ewan

  I'm spending a day with some folk from Scottish Enterprise, Scotland's highly successful economic development agency. We're taking a look at how some of the older ideas I've been developing on social media for small, medium and large companies might work north of the Border. I'll be keen to see if we can maybe develop some new innovative ideas on

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• How much do schools really value pupils' views?

  Published: August 1, 2007, 11:18 am

  Tags: Audience, Communication Tools, Creativity, Digital Image, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Safety, Socialisation

  Time for a story? When I was a school pupil I worked all six years of secondary school on the school magazine, the Pupils' View. The name of the magazine was the title, the mission, the raison d' tre of the whole thing. It made life easy. And it made life difficult, too. When I was editor we sold up to 700 copies of it four times a year at

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• Extreme Learning by any other name?

  Published: August 13, 2007, 1:43 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Edubuzz, East Lothian Council, Extreme Learning, New Brunswick, Rich Tasks, Edubuzz, Elcouncil

  itself. Take a look at an example project to see what we mean. My personal Eureka moment came barely four weeks into my Scottish teaching career in 2002 during a fluke invitation to New Brunswick, Canada. There, in a Miramichi primary school, I saw 70 anglophone children being taught by three amazing teachers en fran ais. They were grouped

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• Map of Future Forces Affecting Education

  Published: August 16, 2007, 2:06 am

  Tags: Building Schools, Digital Image, Ltsfutures, Leadership Amp Management, Socialisation

  The KnowledgeWorks Foundation and the Institute of the Future have come up with a fascinating interactive map of the future forces affecting education. It shows the significant overlap between technology and physical community spaces, and their interplay with schools. Clicking on each element reveals more detail and an invitation to a

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• Digital Holidaymakers

  Published: September 30, 2007, 6:39 pm

  Tags: Glowscotland, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Socialisation, Ulearn07, Curriculum For Excellence, Core Education, Acfe, Glowscotland, New Technologies, Scottish Education, Ulearn07

  Jings, I wish I had come up with this one. "Digital Holidaymakers". AB reports on Maggie Irving's addition to Prensky's rather tired and simplistic notion of "digital immigrants" and "digital natives", the 'them and us' that has offered the lazy, the ignorant and the technophobe a way out of just past the technology (I have some sympathy for

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• Harnessing technology in an ever-changing world

  Published: October 2, 2007, 11:50 pm

  Tags: Leadership Amp Management, Ulearn07, Ulearn, Ulearn07

  DSC01026    Originally uploaded by ulearner The jetlag kicking in, 1200 of New Zealand's (and possibly the world's) best educators sitting in front of me, and with the opening keynote following the New Zealand Education Minister, things seem to have gone quite well considering. The ULearn guys are going to upload the video

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• Keynote: Harnessing The Leading Edge Of Technology

  Published: October 20, 2007, 3:49 am

  Tags: Assessment, Audience, Constructivism, Creativity, Curriculum, Digital Divide, Digital Image, Digital Video Animation, Gaming, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Reboot9, Ulearn07, Weblogs, Wiki, Education, Ewan Mcintosh, Keynote, Leadership, Presentation, Ulearn07

  Thanks to the kind people at Core-Ed the video and slides of my last 'season' of talks on how all of us can lead education and technology change in our schools, Local Authorities and organisations have been put online for all to view. There's also a Google Video without the slides. Every time I do a talk or seminar it's different; in the age

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• The national education agency: making efforts to connect(ed)

  Published: October 31, 2007, 7:51 am

  Tags: Curriculum, Glowscotland, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Scotlearnfest07, Teachmeet07, C4inthewild, Connected, Connected Live, Education, Magazine, Scotlearnfest07, Technology

  The Wild, entrepreneurship, leadership and kids getting green (with the environment, that is, not with envy). For the first time, you can actually comment on all the articles, adding where you think we've got it wrong, missed out a classic example of something, or just to add your point of view. So, do you agree with Carole Craig's view that

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• Uddannelsesforum 07 - Catch me if you can

  Published: November 5, 2007, 8:51 am

  Tags: Leadership Amp Management

  In Odense, Denmark, this afternoon, having retrieved my book from the plane and found a nice man from Apple who lent me a plug (I forgot that, too). The theme for today? How everyone can take the lead in technology, regardless of whether it's in their job title. Hurrah!Pic: Autumn Leaf.

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• Ewan in Derbyshire on Media Lit, Visual Storytelling

  Published: November 15, 2007, 11:08 am

  Tags: Digital Divide, Gaming, Images, Leadership Amp Management, Media Literacy, Socialisation, World Of Ewan

  I've been reading the superb Henry Jenkins and some of his wonderful points in a recent paper, if not a little too complex to get across in one small talk, were included in this teacher's small talk this morning - and contributed to my wee overrun (wrist duly slapped). The main thrust of what I was saying can be seen in video from my New

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• How will we firefight when there's no water left?

  Published: November 17, 2007, 9:27 am

  Tags: Glowscotland, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, Media Literacy, Media Literacy

  Teacher Trauma On Twitter    Originally uploaded by Edublogger Gordon has some Thoughts on Filtering which sets out why filtering 'unacceptable' websites is so difficult. I can't help feel, though, that he's mistitled his post, and that the attitude which is prevalent in school systems around the world still aims to the

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• Students as customers? Depends on what a customer is today

  Published: November 17, 2007, 9:01 am

  Tags: Building Schools, Collaborative Learning, Curriculum, Leadership Amp Management

  Do You Want Fries with That?    Originally uploaded by wickenden Don has been discussing the notion of parents and, separately, of children as being 'customers' of the education system. It's a fascinating debate that I've had with in my mind when I was teaching, with no clear cut answers, but I think the original notion of

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• Ways to have radical thinking No. 2

  Published: November 20, 2007, 4:54 am

  Tags: Leadership Amp Management

  are having to approach the management of their 'goods' to get the most out of them and keep high technology and new pedagogies sustainable. But what about making a comparison with the radical thinking required to make the fashion industry sustainable? On the way home tonight I discovered how the clothes industry is being rethought by the

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• 3/3: The best school systems in the world: best students come from best teachers

  Published: January 8, 2008, 9:28 am

  Tags: Assessment, Blc08, Collaborative Learning, Leadership Amp Management, Assessment, Attainment, Blc08, Mckinsey, Teacher

  but easy from system management: give a space to debate. Providing teachers with the capacity and knowledge on how to deliver is more important and more difficult to gain an oversight of. Teachers need: high expectations shared sense of purpose collective belief in their ability to make a difference These three things need

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• 1/3: The best school systems in the world: it's not (all) about the money

  Published: January 7, 2008, 1:50 pm

  Tags: Assessment, Collaborative Learning, Curriculum, Funding, Leadership Amp Management, Ltsfutures, School Systems, Blc08, Change, Mckinsey, Scotland, Singapore

  for resources, for, example, than there was before. Worse still, smaller class sizes have had little impact, or any impact has been evened out by the little amount of money left for resourcing. Less than 1% of African and Middle Eastern children perform at or above the Singaporian average - to be expected, you might believe, because

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