The government has ordered schools in England not to use resources from organisations which have expressed a desire to end capitalism. Department for Education (DfE) guidance issued on Thursday for school leaders and teachers involved in setting the relationship, sex and health curriculum categorised anti-capitalism as an “extreme political stance” and equated it with opposition to freedom of speech, antisemitism and endorsement of illegal activity.
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In Gaza, citizens are imagining what public spaces could be, and then actually building them.
I’d love to give this a go. Maybe to reboot radio edutalk
A collection of good news, positive trends, uplifting statistics and facts — all beautifully visualized by Information is Beautiful.
The Small Web is for people (not startups, enterprises, or governments). It is also made by people and small, independent organisations (not startups, enterprises, or governments2).
I got site.js up and running on my raspberry pi for a while. Pretty straightforward (I managed the certs stuff eventually).
The idea of The Small Web is the sort of thing I’ve been interested in since I started blogging. I’d love Glow to do something like this for educators (Glow Blogs is part way there, government hosting for some (educators) of its citizens).
Hope to dig into this some more. All the ideas are just lovely!
John Naughton (Memex 1.1)Quote of the Day The mystery which surrounds a thinking machine already surrounds a thinking man.” B. F. Skinner Musical alternative to the morning’s radio news Claudio Abaddo conducting the Berlin Phil. And I mean conducting. Link “Years of photos” permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update
I am pretty much addicted to @jjn1’s daily, this one is particularly interesting.
The SAFE Project has been placing recording devices throughout the rainforest in Borneo. That audio is now available to listen to here.
SAFE Acoustics – Rainforest Audio a beautiful project. Raspberry Pis, across different environment in the Borneo rainforest record audio. There is a how to at: Ecosystem monitoring, made easy.
Via Raspberry Pi listening posts ‘hear’ the Borneo rainforest – Raspberry Pi
Using CSS To Create A CRT, Could be handy for #ds106 daftness.
We could cut global CO2 emissions, and non-travellers could sell theirs to frequent flyers, argues the data journalist
This is brilliant, I’d vote for it in a second:
Mona Chalabi: what if everyone had an air-mile allowance? – cartoon
The Microsoft OneNote Teacher Academy is a learning path comprising four short courses introducing the use of OneNote in teaching for lesson planning, assessment and activities for learning ... These are my notes taken as I followed the learning path, including the reflection questions and my responses.
I’d pretty much decided to use OneNote path next year. My Previous problems lead me to depend on AirDrop, Apple Classroom & Apple Notes in my 1-2-1 iPad classroom. Local was certainly more reliable but lockdown made me think again. Nick Hood, @cullaloe‘s extensive post give me third thoughts.
