Tag: Citizenship & civic engagement

House of Lords Competition

  • May 28, 2009 at 12:00 am

  • Possibly one of the driest, most unappealing web pages you could hope to produce: but its content deserves so much more, which is why I’m adding it here. The House of Lords and the Hansard Society are running a competition for 11-16 year olds, in which they submit views to the Lords Communications Committee. The [...]

DIYcity: reinventing your city by building web apps

  • January 16, 2009 at 1:06 pm

  • “Twitter bots, aggregators, social software, mobile apps – we use these things more and more in our daily routines to make our lives better. But can we also use them to remake our cities altogether? How can these technologies be applied to transform urban spaces, changing them from the centralized, hard-coded things they are today [...]

Bookmarks for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009

  • January 16, 2009 at 4:00 am

  • These are my links for 8 January 2009 through 15 January 2009: Us Now: A film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the internet – "Us Now is a documentary film project about the power of mass collaboration, government and the Internet. Us Now tells the stories of online networks that are [...]

Podcasts for citizenship teachers

  • August 2, 2006 at 6:10 pm

  • I’ve just come across these (can’t listen to them though, as I’ve no speakers on this machine!). First is a list of ‘podcasts for general studies and citizenship‘. Second is the Grassroots Channel, inspired by the Birmingham Community Empowerment Network, which “tells the stories of ordinary people who decided to change the world around them”.

What are ‘core British values’?

  • May 24, 2006 at 5:22 pm

  • Bill Rammell (the UK’s Higher Education Minister) recently suggested that ‘core British values’ should be taught in schools. I don’t know whether I am actually lacking the intellect to sufficiently understand what is meant here, or am just trying too hard. Whatever the case, I can’t pin down any one value that is uniquely ‘British’: [...]

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