… they can both be impersonated on social networking sites.
According to the Manchester United website:
The club wishes to make it clear that no Manchester United players maintain personal profiles on social networking websites.
Fans encountering any web pages purporting to be written by United players should treat them with extreme scepticism.
Any official news relating to Manchester [...]
Back on the 4th December the DCSF published its timetable for school improvement. Lots of the announcements were already known, 1-to-1 tuition, the School Record Card, but what perhaps did not make the press was the demise of LA advice and support services and their replacement by a “market place” of accredited providers. These changes [...]
According to the BBC, South London’s Durand Primary is to buy a building in the home counties and create a weekly boarding experience for its inner city students. The idea is to create an all-through 3-19 Academy, with those over 13 attending as weekly boarders. Jim Davies the Headteacher is reported to have said he [...]
David Puttnam in the closing keynote of the Handheld Learning Conference last week made an impassioned plea for education to engage learners rather than become more dis-engaged from the ways and forms in which young people learn. He drew on the fact that pupil dis-engagement meant educational disadvantage and an increasing “emotional truancy”, in [...]
Since finishing Clay Shirky’s book, “Here Comes Everybody” I’ve been trying to reconcile the notion of the traditional professional (or other) association and his thoughts. This all goes back to the comments Ewan made about Naace back in March and at the time, I was still forming a view on what he was saying.
Ewan’s question [...]
Sean Aiken finished college with a business degree and made a promise to himself that he would not settle into a career unless he has a passion for it. As he says about his generation:
“My generation has been described as a “Peter Pan generation”, “adultescents”, “kidults”, and a host of others to describe how we [...]
Last week, I upgraded to Microsoft Office 2008, and have been disgruntled ever since. Having bought a MacBook Pro almost immediately after they came out (two years ago) I was reassured by the Microsoft spokeswoman at the launch (Jan 10th 2006 - video on the internet, but can’t find it now) who said that [...]
A regular read in my RSS feed is Seth Godin, the best selling business writer and blogger. Here he talks about his curiosity in an interview by Nic for his thought provoking website Monday9am.tv.
The captions are Nic’s.
Curiosity
So were you in the queue? My daughter was. The legal wranglings and climbdowns are all memories and for Seth, the book is now a souvenir, and no longer for secrets:
“Five hundred year old technology (books) is just too slow for the Net.
The act of printing, storing and shipping millions of books takes too
long for [...]
Pete wrote recently about scarcity:
“Most educators, maybe most of the general public, live their lives in the belief that scarcity is the way of things. There is only so much to go around, so be sure that you fight for your piece of the pie, even if is at the expense of another. …
“Most educators [...]
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