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Rumble in the curriculum jungle…

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

An interesting keynote from Mike Rumble tonight. Gareth put some notes on the conference blog. He encourages schools to takes risk and in developing ‘our’ curriculum, likening it to building regulations in which the  architects and builders can have creative freedom to produce very different buildings while still adhering to the regs.

The curriculum is presently the entire planned learning experience. The Curriculum of the future needs to encompass universal and unique elements. We need to move from THE National Curriculum, to OUR Curriculum. The phrase we need to be using is Contagious professionalism.

The conference is not at all like I imagined it to be. More on this another day ;-)

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Its almost like being there…

Tuesday, February 28th, 2006

I’m still at home in Nottingham before I begin the trek down to Torquay but I feel like I am already there. I can look at the photos posted already to the conference photo blog. Gareth has been blogging the ‘The Next Three Years - Emerging ICT Agendas‘ Check out the really interesting sound-bytes in the comments.

Leon Cych

Leon Cych - talking aobut a top down model, but only just touched on a bottom up structure. The fear is we would be all VLE’d up and no one will use it. How far have you considered this?

Doug Brown - DFES

We have 23,000 flowers blooming, some not as bright as other. When we see good practice we should say to the others, wake up. We should disseminate that. There’s lots of good practice. Part of out problem is that we are not top-down enough. What we are trying to do is to provide leaderhip.

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