What’s Purpos/ed?
The aim of Purpos/ed is to create a space for debate about the purpose(s) of education. We’ve got a 3-year plan leading up to the next General Election in the UK.
What’s #3x5?
This:
We were inspired by the Great quotes about learning and change Flickr group.
Guidelines
1. Sign up for a date slot in the table below. You can upload your image whenever you like before that, but that’s when it will be featured on the Purpos/ed site.
2. Choose a quotation from someone’s post as part of the #500words campaign that someone else before you hasn’t chosen.
3. Find a Creative Commons-licensed image that you feel suits the quotation in some way. Try http://search.creativecommons.org (click on ‘Flickr’)
4. Download the image and use Powerpoint, Keynote, or an image-editing program (Picnik?) to add:
- Quotation
- Author
- Image license details (e.g. CC BY-NC person)
5. Save it and then upload it to Flickr (basic accounts are free). Ensure you give your image a CC BY license.
6. Go to the Purpos/ed Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/purposeducation and add your image.
Date slots
Date | Name | Quotation | Short bio (c.50 words) |
Fri 1st April 2011 | Doug Belshaw & Andy Stewart | “There is an urgent need to have a serious public debate about the purpose of education that doesn’t simply divide itself neatly into opposing camps rehashing the familiar arguments between progressives and traditionalists.” | Doug and Andy are kickstarters of Purpos/ed (this will be a demo post with a screencast howto) |
Sat 2nd April 2011 | Cristina Milos | “Education should be about cradling happiness.“ (by Tom Barrett) | PYP teacher, Romania |
Mon 4th April 2011 | Frances Bell | “...helping young people discover what their passions are, giving up the artificial reins we .. use to strangle … passions and .. creativity ...” (by Ewan McIntosh) | Frances Bell is a mother of adult children, longtime partner of a tech saint, recovered systems analyst/developer, academic in Information Systems and co-editor of Research in Learning Technology (the journal of ALT). |
Tues 5th April 2011 | Ariellah Rosenberg | “The Whole Purpose of Education is to turn mirrors into windows” Sydney J Harris | Mother to 3 girls. Heads the Educator Empowerment at ORT SA. Quote addict. can be found tweeting @Ariellah.
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Weds 6th April 2011 | Colin Graham | “Some of the time I spent in school I remember as an exciting adventure” Colin Graham | I make no apologies for quoting myself, and neither should anyone else who believes in this! @ColinTGraham Teacher, trainer, coach, linguist, singer, musician, composer, arranger |
Thurs 7th April 2011 | Glen Gilchrist | “Learning happens through our interactions with others and not just in school” Jan Webb | Head of Science, teacher and believer in children's learning potential. Tweeting as @mrgpg |
Fri 8th April 2011 | Cheryl Reynolds | "Could we agree on one thing? Could we say categorically that education is not a commodity and therefore not for sale?" from Rab at http://ow.ly/4ll14 | Senior Lecturer in the School of Education and Professional Development, University of Huddersfield |
Sat 9th April 2011 | Lou McGill | So despite our best intentions to ensure education is about freedom and choice, this is what I believe education is about, the reality is that education is about control and power. James Clay http://elearningstuff.net/2011/03/31/purposed/ | learner, parent, e-learning consultant - cares about making formal education as rewarding and relevant as informal learning |
Mon 11th April 2011 | Russell Dyas | education is/ should be about: building good character, creating people with humanity and believing in and encouraging people to exceed their own expectations. Cristina Costa - | Russell Dyas is an educational technologist from the UK. Who (by the time this date comes around) works for Impero Solutions. I can be found tweeting at @russdev or rambling at my website russelldyas.com. |
Tues 12th April 2011 | Steve Philp | “The internet provides us with rich and free spaces for expansive learning.” from The Practice of Freedom by Graham Attwell | I do lots of things, but mainly I’m a teacher. |
Weds 13th April 2011 | Andrew Quinn | ‘...education should nurture and inspire a life-long inquisitiveness focused on what’s interesting to the learner...’ by Paul Simbeck-Hampson | Assistant Head at a primary school, maths coordinator, responsible for Curriculum innovation. Can be found on Twitter @SpandrewQ |
Thurs 14th April 2011 | Catherine Cronin | “Education should critically ensure children, young people and adults are equipped to be unsettled, to be confronted by difference, to be changed, and to effect change.” by Josie Fraser | Educator & academic coordinator of online MSc at NUI Galway, Ireland. @catherinecronin |
Fri 15th April 2011 | Paul Simbeck-Hampson | “The Purpose of Education is to provide me with a stimulating place to play throughout my entire life – for those moments when I’m not capable of providing it for myself – and then get out of the way.” by Simon Bostock | Business Consultancy, Brand Design, Social Media, Mobile Tagging, Business Mobility, Collective Intelligence and Associate at the Internet Time Alliance. simbeckhampson.com |
Sat 16th April 2011 | Tony Sheppard | “Our education system will improve greatly when teachers can remove the guilt from their shoulders and take pride in their skills and achievements.” Daniel Needlestone | Educational Technologist / Advocate |
Mon 18th April 2011 | Lisa Stevens | “For me then, a fundamental purpose of education should be ….. yet to be invented” AND “The purpose of education is to enable people to understand, navigate, contribute to, challenge and change the world” Josie Fraser | Mummy and wife, educator and consultant on primary languages, creativity and technology, ADE/AEM, runner and many other things with an odd obsession with trees and windows Tweet @lisibo blog ¡Vámonos! |
Tues 19th April 2011 | Peter Hirst | TBC | One of the founders of every1speaks.com - school improvement through student voice |
Weds 20th April 2011 | Theo Kuechel | There is no “boring”. There is no memorization of facts. She wants to research topics she interested in and report them to her classmates. She reads, write, draws, thinks and discusses. Lisa Thumann | Theo researcher / consultant exploring the relationships between, technology, cultures and learning. Theo works and advises nationally and internationally on digital content, video. @theokk |
Thurs 21st April 2011 | James Clay | It takes time for learners to grow in their learning but grow they shall... | James Clay is the ILT & Learning Resources Manager at Gloucestershire College. He is responsible for the VLE, the use of learning technologies, e-learning, mobile learning, the libraries, digital and online resources and the strategic direction of the college in relation to the use of learning technologies. |
Fri 22nd April 2011 | Nick Wells | “Not all of our students ride the busy motorways of life...some take the quieter laneways. Their journey is no less important.” Jenny Luca | Nick Wells is a learner, teacher, consultant, reader, occasional writer and - most importantly - father and husband. |
Sat 23rd April 2011 | Ian Guest | “...education can – and probably should – look different for every student.” Damian Bariexca | @IaninSheffield is an ICT Development Manager at a school ... in Sheffield |
Mon 25th April 2011 | Lark Fleming | “How do we broaden the debate to include them?” Yog Spiers | A Los Angeles area elementary school teacher. Tweet me @happyteacherla |
Tues 26th April 2011 | Emily Wilson | “The most effective learning takes place when we are on the edge of our comfort zone.” Rob Thomas | Secondary school Music teacher, drummer, thinker. Tweets in school from @RGSMusicdept and lone thoughts from @Timshel82 |
Weds 27th April 2011 | Lauren Tripp | “Education should embrace...the ‘Let’s have another go’, and not just the success at the end of the road / line / course / year.” Tom Barrett | Doctoral candidate, working on a dissertation on literacy as a cultural practice at the University of Florida, U.S.A. Find me on Tumblr or Twitter. |
Thurs 28th April 2011 | Julian S. Wood | “I’m not suggesting that we should plunge head first into wildly unstructured models of learning but if it were not for people who dared to be creative, who dared to experiment, we would not be able to stare into the vast ocean that is our solar system, or be able to listen to Mozart on a device, so small, it can fit into the palms of our hands.” James Michie | UK Primary School Deputy Head. Loves using New Technology to create,inspire and provoke. Has some fabulous ideas now & again. |
Fri 29th April 2011 | @IanYorston | TBC | Director of Digital Strategy at Radley College |
Sat 30th April 2011 | “Education should disrupt as much as it builds” Dave White | Social & Educational Technologist | |
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