C.E. Jottings

CE2.0 a personal journey on a public road

Elliot Clifton has contributed a long and challenging reflection on the relationship between conductive education and the internet (in a Comment to an earlier posting of mine). At one point Elliot writes: “As a community CE hasn't really grasped the possibilities of Web 1.0 (static web pages), never mind the community-building social possibilities offered by 2.0.” Without fundamentally disagreeing with all that Elliot writes, I find myself perhaps a little more optimistic. For over 30 years I have been a... Read more →

Conductive education, Twitter & Hashtags

Ok, so here's another practical suggestion to explore, around conductive education, the world congress and social networking (Web2.0). Increasingly you will find Twitter being used for instant live feeds from conferences and other events. When several different people do that, it can be difficult to track them all down on Twitter. However, that problem is solved by using 'hashtags'. These are simply words or sequences of characters with a # symbol in front. Then everyone else adding this hashtag makes... Read more →

CE2.0, 7WC10 & Social Reporting*

* Conductive education, Web2.0 or social networking, the 7th World Congress in 2010 and social reporting. Having expanded the title of this post, I would like to introduce you to David Wilcox who blogs under the name 'SocialReporter'. In February this year he posted "How social reporters can help turn old-style conferences into the new convening spaces". The title just about says it all, though with a series of links to the work of Bev Trayner, Clare White, Dave Briggs... Read more →

CE2.0 ("Conductive education & Web2.0)

May I draw your attention to .... My recent posting ".... a video too choked with its own portent ... " has attracted comments from Andrew Sutton and Ben Foulger on conductive education and social media (or "CE2.0" as I've called it in the title of this posting). We are all explorers, all journeying. Read more →

7th World Congress: "meet smarter" online first?

At the end of a posting a couple of days ago, I wrote: In December 2010, the 7th World Congress of Conductive Education takes place in Hong Kong. I am greatly looking forward to the adventure of being there. I am also wondering how the social web can be deployed to (a) enhance the experience of all of us who aspire to be there and (b) engage everyone who cannot in the experience - before, during and after the Congress.... Read more →

'State theory of learning' condemned

"The Stalinist overtones of a 'state theory of learning' enforced by 'the machinery of surveillance and accountability' – league tables, testing targets – are as unattractive as they are serious" says a new inquiry into primary education in the UK. The inquiry, reported in today's Independent, recommends that children do not start formal schooling until the age of six. Other recommendations include an end to central prescription by the Government of how teachers should teach. For the Government, the Independent... Read more →

".... a video too choked with its own portent ...."

Tom Heath is very clever fellow. He works (it says here) "in the field of recommender systems and collective intelligence in a Linked Data/Semantic Web context". Earlier this year he had a credit along with Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web, for an article in the International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems. Tom works for Talis Platform and occasionally sends me their magazine "Nodalities: the magazine of the semantic web". Clever fellow, as I said.... Read more →

"The Twittersphere had gone into meltdown"

It took one tweet on Monday evening as I left the office to light the virtual touchpaper. At five past nine I tapped: "Now Guardian prevented from reporting parliament for unreportable reasons. Did John Wilkes live in vain?" Twitter's detractors are used to sneering that nothing of value can be said in 140 characters. My 104 characters did just fine. By the time I got home, after stopping off for a meal with friends, the Twittersphere had gone into meltdown.... Read more →

Mobilising CE networks through social media

The blogosphere yesterday protected Parliament and Free Speech and the right to know, in the UK - and maybe showed the way to how we can use social media to support individuals and groups battling 'authorities' on behalf of conductive education. You must read the detail yourself - but on Twitter and blogs, people blew away a 'gagging order' on The Guardian newspaper so powerful it prevented even mention of its own existence. I have previously advocated the potential of... Read more →

The Future Internet

Blogs are possible because of Web2.0 which makes us all potential creators of content, rather than simply passive readers of content. What might 'The Future Internet' - Web3.0 - look like? Take a peak at this video from the EU: The Future Internet Read more →