Resources for Education

Information on my writing projects and poetry readings.

Free Our Schools

BBC Panorama: Muslim Schooling

This is the full report of the New Learning Adventure project which enabled U3A members to access University teaching and research, as well as facilities and resources, and enabled University academics to engage with a group of informed and interested older adults. Find out how the project worked, the lessons learnt, and what will happen next! A great example of a University/U3A partnership project that has achieved sustainability.

NLA_Project_Report.pdf

This is a short summary of the New Learning Adventure project which enabled U3A members to access University teaching and research, as well as facilities and resources, and enabled University academics to engage with a group of informed and interested older adults. Find out how the project worked, the lessons learnt, and what will happen next! A great example of a University/U3A partnership project that has achieved sustainability.

NLA_Report_Summary.pdf

We've got some very good news. Over the next few months we're going to be working with Becta and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (which usually gets shortened to BIS) to improve School of Everything and make it available to lots more people.

For some of us, the process of composing educational resources has come a long way from a blackboard, or borrowing books from a library, or photocopying handouts, or even creating slide presentations - for others, these methods remain necessary. Anyone who has had more than a superficial understanding of the Internet these days knows there are more resources and methods available to us now than at any other point in the history of education. For most people however, accessing and knowing how to use the Internet effectively prevents them from accessing this wealth of resources.

Together with Wolf we have defined the notion of EDUCATION, quite unexpectedly. Education is something that changes the human. Education is the circumstances, where the human is inclined to realize himself as a spiritual being. Education is the possibility to learn to become ANOTHER MYSELF. Education is the possibility to make use of a new MYSELF.

A school with no curriculum. Teach yourself something new. This is exactly what School of Everything gets all excited about!

Official website of Robert Brian... discover more about Robert Brian, gigs and tours, news and education all in one place.

In an unexpected move, the G20 summit today proposed the introduction of a new currency based on academic qualifications.

Our friend Pippa has decamped to Berlin and is doing some very interesting things with DIY education. She's started her own "DIY Masters" programme to learn everything she wants on her own terms and give her studies the same status and support as a formal masters degree.

I wish I had learned to touch type.

Keyboard skills are so valueable now.

I think it is time touch typing was considered to be an essential learning skill and included on the National Curriculum for primary schools.

Another essential learning skill that should be taught is how to ask questions. That sounds daft, I know , but children are not given sufficient opportunities to ask questions.

Research continues to show that the avereage number of questions asked in a school year per pupil is one a month!

Nice piece by respected VC Fred Wilson on how the web is giving 'power to the people' and what this could mean for education.

It is desirable to officially register your works with the Registrar of Copyrights in India.

Reasons to Register
here are two fundamental reasons to Register:

1) ability to sue; and
2) statutory damages.

Dangers of Non-Registration

The creative blog of American poet Thomas L. Vaultonburg.

Zombie Logic Press