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Theme : adaptivestate
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The City is the Database
There's a fine story in the NYT today discussing improvements to the city's new public information line, 311. In North America 911 has been the standard emergency number for years, while dialling 411 gets you directory assistance. Mayor Bloomberg, having built his fortune on providing more information faster to Wall Street traders years before the web, knows the power of good IT. In 2003 he launched the service which today handles millions of calls and can be used for everything from...
from : petermacleod
19th July 2004
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Step by Step
He doesn't, of course, go on to say directly how this can be achieved or that innovation networks are the future, but it is surely a step in the right direction that he is now publically proclaiming many of the premises on which Hargreaves' argument is built. Normington does make reference to the significant job cuts which are looming at the DfES, and it is easy to get the impression that this is the real spur for accepting that the centre no longer can or should lead the way. Either way, it...
from : jamespage
2nd July 2004
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Learning about Personalisation
A very worthy and valuable successor to Working Laterally, Charlie Leadbeater's pamphlet is the second in the series produced in partnership with the DfES and the National College for School Leadership.Not even in print yet, you can now download a copy of Learning about Personalisation from the website.
from : jamespage
10th May 2004
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Personalisation vs. Innovation?
An article on business innovation in this week's Economist, cites Gillette's latest razor as symptomatic of the fact that big companies in particular are finding it increasingly difficult to innovate on anything more than an incremental scale. One factor which is used to explain this is the contemporary breakdown of stable mass markets such that nowadays "no innovation is an island". Is this a positive sign that markets are more mature than they used to be - offering highly personalised...
from : jamespage
27th April 2004
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League division
Before they start pinching themselves or popping champagne corks, teachers in England should note that the newspaper in question was The Australian not the TES, the ministers not Messrs Clarke and Miliband but representatives of Australia’s state governments.The right-wing Liberal government in Canberra has been trying to make the receipt of billions of dollars of federal funding conditional on schools’ achievement of national literacy and numeracy targets (sound familiar?)This...
from : pauljoseph
27th April 2004
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Networks & Knowledge bricks?
It's interesting that, in an age where playing computer games is becoming widely accepted for all ages, the likes of D&D remain firmly stigmatised. Which is a shame, really: in theory, they have a lot going for them. They're unlimited (ie. you can do whatever, go wherever, you want); they're profoundly social in nature (ie. it's impossible to play on your own); they're co-operative (ie. players work together); they're customisable (ie. you can change the rules on a whim, or make them up...
from : alistairdavidson
26th April 2004
