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		<title>Reasons to be Cheerful Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My second reason for being cheerful is that James Dyson is displaying a key designer characteristic &#8211; persistence. Despite numerous and painful setbacks in his crusade to alert the country to the importance of Design and Technology education he has refused to surrender. Keep going James! This article in the Telegraph provides a wonderfully articulate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reasons to be Cheerful Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ironically what appears to be very bad news is really the opposite. This article in the independent seems to have triggered considerable interest.  A few years ago it may have raised an eyebrow but we then had a financial crisis and the country woke up to the fact that Britain had become too reliant on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 2009 Owers lecture, yet again, generated a lively discussion following an inspirational presentation on Robotics by Kate Sim</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Sillet raised the problem of risk aversion  in education]]></description>
		<link>http://ideasfarm.net/?p=144</link>
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		<title>Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink ; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Derek Wenmoth points out an Albatross, the bird of good omen, and I share his frustration at being becalmed. He says, &#8220;But consider the following… a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ideasfarm.net/?p=113</link>
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		<title>Education is still in the Chalk Ages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This quote returns to haunt us&#8230; Teachers often receive little or no subsequent training which, given the pace at which IT develops, means their knowledge soon becomes outdated. And because there is no mechanism by which teachers can continuously learn and communicate with one another, it is hard – except perhaps within the largest schools [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ideasfarm.net/?p=93</link>
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		<title>Leading CPD in the School &#8211; Using Web 2.0 Tools</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading CPD in the School &#8211; Using Web 2.0 Tools a seminar lead by Professor Marilyn Leask at Brunel University. It was an invited audience representing DCSF, SSAT MirandaNet, academics and others. There were a number of presentations including one by Steve Dale who has been a key developer of the IDeA knowledge management community. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ideasfarm.net/?p=70</link>
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		<title>EPS2.0</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The term &#8216;killer application&#8217; is perhaps overused but this one deserves the accolade. Core education NZ have created a very powerful tool which allows the whole school to &#8216;hold a mirror&#8217; up to itself.  Carefully developed over 8 years it is currently being employed in hundreds of New Zealand schools and attracted considerable interest in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ideasfarm.net/?p=60</link>
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		<title>The 2008 Owers Lecture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The ‘English disease’ was diagnosed by Stan Owers as “A failure to recognise the importance of manufacturing and the creative and intellectual challenge offered by careers in industry”. This year’s Owers’ lecture placed the engineering diploma under the microscope. The event was far more than a comparison of symptoms. A wide range of experts from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ideasfarm.net/?p=47</link>
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		<title>ULearn08</title>
		<description><![CDATA[CORE EDUCATION UK @ ULEARN 08 Core Education UK is offering six sessions at ULearn 08 in Christchurch New Zealand Click here for PDF 1,700 educators from New Zealand and further afield descend on Christchurch New Zealand to take part in this massive event over three days from October 7th &#8211; 10th 2008. Core Education [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://ideasfarm.net/?p=38</link>
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		<title>Can Diplomas Cure the ‘English Disease’?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an exciting new era in qualifications begins this September the Ower&#8217;s Lecture this year will ask &#8211; Can Diplomas Cure the ‘English Disease’? Will they overcome the ‘English disease’ which sees vocational and practical learning as less worthy and improve the status, number and quality of recruits into industry generally? What can we do [...]]]></description>
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