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		<title>Futurelab E-Newsletter 66.. items</title>
		<description><![CDATA[INFOCOW
Work experience opportunity with Futurelab
There is an exciting opportunity for you and a small number of students to work with Futurelab over the coming year. As part of the Greater Expectations project we are looking for 10 small groups of Infocow ‘partners’. These groups will work with us to help develop and manage our brand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/03/10/futurelab-e-newsletter-66-items/</link>
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		<title>Becta &#8211; Home Access programme</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Becta announces second phase of provisional-approved suppliers for Home Access programme
Prime Minister, Gordon Brown launched the Home Access programme at the Learning and Technology World Forum. The scheme aims to deliver equal learning opportunities to the third of families in England that currently have no access to the internet at home. The Home Access programme, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/03/10/becta-home-access-programme/</link>
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		<title>The Lessons: Hi Stakes Testing = Mis-Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Lessons: Hi Stakes Testing = Mis-Education
A short video that contrasts the disastrous high stakes testing syndrome with a more creative cultural competency-based form of evaluating a student&#8217;s intellectual growth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D712J1V2Jsg
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		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/03/08/the-lessons-hi-stakes-testing-mis-education/</link>
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		<title>Times &#8211;  &#8216;Bureaucracy&#8217; is driving talented teachers out of schools, Tories claim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Times, January 1st 2010. Nicola Woolcock, Education Correspondent. http://tiny.cc/1hLWl
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		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/03/08/times-bureaucracy-is-driving-talented-teachers-out-of-schools-tories-claim/</link>
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		<title>Telegraph &#8211; Reading at five &#8216;fails to boost skills&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Children forced to read from the age of five are no better than those left without books until their seventh birthday, according to research. 
 By Graeme Paton, Education Editor. Published: 10:00PM GMT 05 Jan 2010.  Read the article at http://tiny.cc/3ok5H
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		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/03/08/telegraph-reading-at-five-fails-to-boost-skills/</link>
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		<title>EO Campaign Website updates to 07.03.2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[07.03.2010
A new article entitled Why write to Lords and MPs now and what to say has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
04.03.2010
A new article entitled Government asks authorities about safeguarding practice in home education has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
01.03.2010
A new article entitled New Ideas on Writing to the House of Lords [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/03/08/eo-campaign-website-updates-to-07-03-2010/</link>
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		<title>Designs for Learning &#8211; Transforming outdoor spaces for education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Designs for Learning      
Transforming outdoor spaces for education – make this event part of your CPD
Tuesday 23rd March 2010, The American School of London NW8
  
97% of teachers believe that schools need to use their outside spaces effectively to enhance their pupil’s development* but 80% claim that their school is failing to maximise the potential of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/designs-for-learning-transforming-outdoor-spaces-for-education/</link>
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		<title>EO Campaign Website Updates to 02.02.2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A new article entitled Committee Chair Receives Parliamentary Petition Against New Measures has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
02.02.2010
A new article entitled New readers start here: where are we up to with Government plans has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
01.02.2010
A new article entitled Are Home Educators Worrying About Nothing? has been posted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/eo-campaign-website-updates-to-02-02-2010/</link>
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		<title>Futurelab: Planning for the future &#8211; new resources available to inspire futures thinking</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Planning for the future &#8211; new resources available to inspire futures thinking
Make the Future
A new video looking at ideas drawn in the main from research commissioned under the Beyond Current Horizons programme, is now available. The video, entitled Make the future, considered futures for education in the light of social and technological change over the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/futurelab-planning-for-the-future-new-resources-available-to-inspire-futures-thinking/</link>
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		<title>ESRC Seminar Series. Violence and Childhood: International Perspectives.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seminar 1: violence and the making of the subject
Friday March 12. 9.30 to 5.30.
Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HX
 This seminar explores the role of violence in shaping the subjectivity of the young human. Its focus is on how practices of parenting and schooling involve the deployment of violence to socialise and enculturate children and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/esrc-seminar-series-violence-and-childhood-international-perspectives/</link>
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		<title>Futurelab: Thinking Space</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A joint publication between CABE, Futurelab and Portsmouth City Council, &#8216;Thinking Space&#8217; is a FREE workshop resource aiming to support people involved with redesign and rebuild projects, such as Building Schools for the Future (BSF) and the Primary Capital Programmes (PCP).  It provides ideas for workshop sessions which can help those in preparing for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/futurelab-thinking-space/</link>
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		<title>Learnovation Foresight Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Learnovation Foresight Report
The foresight activity, binding together ongoing results of desk and field research and consultation, finds its methodological tool in a DELPHI survey aimed at testing consensus and broadening vision&#8230; download the report here http://www.elearningeuropa.info/files/lo/Learnovation_foresight.pdf
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		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/learnovation-foresight-report/</link>
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		<title>2010 Horizon Report</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The annual Horizon Report describes the continuing work of the NMC’s Horizon Project, a research-oriented effort that seeks to identify and describe emerging technologies likely to have&#8230; download the report here http://wp.nmc.org/horizon2010/
1. Executive Summary
2. Key Trends 
3. Critical Challenges
4. Technologies to Watch
5. The Horizon Project
6. One Year or Less: Mobile Computing
7. One Year or Less: Open [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/2010-horizon-report/</link>
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		<title>Press release: Join in the ‘Future of Reading’ Literacy Forum at the Education Show</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Friday 5th March, the ‘Future of Reading’ Literacy Forum is taking place alongside the Education Show, with support from the National Literacy Association. Developed to delve deep into the heart of literacy, attendees can enjoy a stellar programme of speakers and roundtable discussions, including a presentation by author and former Children’s Laureate, Michael Rosen.
Richard [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/press-release-join-in-the-%e2%80%98future-of-reading%e2%80%99-literacy-forum-at-the-education-show/</link>
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		<title>Press release: First Tutors goes free to attract new tutors</title>
		<description><![CDATA[27 January &#8211; As the busiest period in the private tuition calendar approaches, First Tutors, www.firsttutors.co.uk, has made advertising tuition services free of charge for tutors across the country. 
The award-winning website, which already helps over 10,000 tutors to promote their lessons locally hopes that by making the website free-of-charge for tutors this spring, it will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/press-release-first-tutors-goes-free-to-attract-new-tutors/</link>
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		<title>From Ellen C Braun and Raising Small Souls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Oftentimes, a frenzied pace takes over our days as we frantically attempt to squeeze chauffeuring two children to three different after-school-activities, grocery shopping, a stop at the ATM machine, picking up the shirts at the cleaners, returning library books, and a mad rush to ship a package before the Post Office closes.
 
Does it have to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/from-ellen-c-braun-and-raising-small-souls/</link>
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		<title>Press release: TEACHING IN 10 HOTTEST CAREERS PREDICTED FOR 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Career Energy, a specialist career management and outplacement consultancy, has today launched a free Career Guide highlighting the top ten career opportunities for people seeking to change their working lives in 2010 on 26th January 2010.  The guide is based on research into current and projected business, social and economic trends, related labour supply and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/02/03/press-release-teaching-in-10-hottest-careers-predicted-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>AERO E-news 25.01.2010 &#8211; Top 5 Education Videos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[AERO&#8217;s Top 5 Education Videos
Below is a list of our top five most viewed education videos during the past year. Enjoy!
1) John Taylor Gatto, Weapons of Mass Instruction (2004 AERO conference keynote)
2) Alfie Kohn, The Trouble with Pure Freedom: A Case for Active Adult Involvement in Progressive Education (2005 AERO conference keynote)
3) Charles Eisenstein, Deschooling [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/25/aero-e-news-25-01-2010-top-5-education-videos/</link>
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		<title>EO Campaign Site updates to 25.01.2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[25.01.2010
A new article entitled Education Otherwise Research into Home Education and Social Care has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
25.01.2010
A new article entitled Update from Education Otherwise 11-25 January 2010 has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
23.01.2010
A new article entitled Local Authority views on registration and monitoring consultation has been posted on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/25/eo-campaign-site-updates-to-25-01-2010/</link>
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		<title>Futurelab: &#8216;Building spaces for the future’</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Building spaces for the future’ is a FREE event that will draw on recent research by Futurelab about young people’s view of what learning spaces should look like in the future to offer practical support to Local Authorities, schools and those going through building programmes such as BSF and PCP. It will help you to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/21/futurelab-building-spaces-for-the-future%e2%80%99/</link>
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		<title>Notschool.net on You Tube</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Notschool doesn&#8217;t really need any introduction to the CPE-PEN network but not everyone will have seen this video
Notschool.net is an international &#8216;Online Learning Community&#8217; offering an alternative to traditional education for young people. Notschool.net 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMaUMsyShL0
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		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/21/notschool-net-on-you-tube/</link>
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		<title>EO Campaign website updates 21.01.2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[21.01.2010
A new article entitled NEETs has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
21.01.2010
A new article entitled Education Otherwise letter to Minister Vernon Coaker has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
20.01.2010
A new article entitled DCSF position statement not circulated to Bill Committee Panel has been posted on the EO Campaign website,
http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/update.php.
19.01.2010
A new article entitled Anniversary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/21/eo-campaign-website-updates-21-01-2010/</link>
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		<title>Eclectic Lefty-hand: Conjectures on Jimi Hendrix, Handedness, and Electric Ladyland</title>
		<description><![CDATA[14th January 2010. 27 Church Road, Hove, BN3 2FA, UK.       www.psypress.com/laterality
Eclectic Lefty-hand: Conjectures on Jimi Hendrix, Handedness, and Electric Ladyland
bit.ly/jimihendrix
I always thought of Jimi as just coming from outer space, because he was just so different. He just came from such a left-field place.
- Robbie Krieger, guitarist in The Doors
This new analysis of Jimi Hendrix&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/18/eclectic-lefty-hand-conjectures-on-jimi-hendrix-handedness-and-electric-ladyland/</link>
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		<title>BBC Radio 4 Isn’t That Dangerous?: African Travels Among Academics and Other Wild Animals. Educational Heretics Press.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BBC Radio 4 Isn’t That Dangerous?: African Travels Among Academics and Other Wild Animals. Educational Heretics Press.
If you&#8217;re anything like me Saturday mornings wouldn&#8217;t be the same without listening to BBC Radio 4&#8217;s Excess Baggage. On the 16.01.2010  John Mc Carthy interviewed our very own Professor Clive Harber about his latest book from Educational Heretics [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/18/bbc-radio-4-isn%e2%80%99t-that-dangerous-african-travels-among-academics-and-other-wild-animals-educational-heretics-press/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: OVERSCHOOLED but UNDEREDUCATED</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BOOK REVIEW by PHILIP TOOGOOD, Trustee of PERSONALISED EDUCATION NOW. Many thanks to Philip for this review of an important book.
OVERSCHOOLED but UNDEREDUCATED by John Abbott with Heather MacTaggart
ISBN 1-8553-9623-4 (hardcover)
Published by CONTINUUM INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING GROUP
 A RACE BETWEEN EDUCATION AND CATASTROPHE
As a young student John Abbott had to write an essay on the observation by HG [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.personalisededucationnow.org.uk/2010/01/18/book-review-overschooled-but-undereducated/</link>
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