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Not got your nominations in for the 2005 international Edublog Awards? Well, hurry up. There's only 4 days to go until the nominations are counted up and the short-list is announced. Be sure and get your favorite blogs and bloggers into the running for the Edublog industries most prestigious and desirable award!
This (link is to pdf version) turned up in the snail mail this morning, and brightened it up considerably (apologies to everyone in Canada who stoically puts up with my lack of tolerance to the cold - but it's freezing here!).
The Learner's Charter for a personalised learning environment is just the thing for those of us in the mood for manifestos right now. It comes from the good people over at Nesta Futurelab, and is accompanied by the also excellent Personalisation and Digital Technologies report by Hannah Green, Keri Facer and Tim Rudd, with Patrick Dillon and Peter Humphreys.
They argue that although capable of being used in ways which reinforce and reproduce existing inequalities, digital technologies are the essential tools for societies wishing to meet the needs of learners and deliver meaningful personalisation: "The goal of the series was to rearticulate this debate [personalisation] in terms of the experiences, choices and rights we would expect young people to be able to exercise in a personalised context".
The authors also draw attention to the fact that while learners are not in a position to negotiate their own rights, change is going to be slow.
"This charter has been designed to stimulate debate around how digital technologies and institutional change might enable personalisation in four key areas (the more familiar terms to which these areas relate are in brackets):
• choices (learner voice and choice)
• skills and knowledge (curriculum)
• learning environments (pedagogies and institutions)
• feedback (assessment and recognition)"
They also provide ideas for using the charter with learners, parents and institutions, and documentation of the personalisation seminar series which the charter came out of.
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The Poetry Archive is a great new UK based project with site sections and resources for teachers, students and librarians, and The Children's Poetry Archive - a dedicated site for poems written for younger readers and listeners. Well worth a good look around.
Andrew Motion, the UK's Poet Laureate is the driving force behind the new site which aims to make oral recordings - especially those read by the poet themselves - freely available. There are interviews, historic and newly commissioned recordings, and also guided tours of the archives available.
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