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school website yourself. What will you write today's school news to be?Archive page for Monday, 18 September 2006
Mo, Sep 18, 2006Anyway, he's got the UK's parents and the UK government thinking, and acting on those thoughts. Brilliant.
Now, to do the same thing for school websites and ICT use. We need to ensure that more and more kids come out of school thinking that computers are their friends.
We need more and more knowledge workers.
We need teachers, parents and government to think and act on the ICT revolution.
Got to say that the photography coming out of Pudsey Grangefield is terrific.
Scooby Doo this, Scooby Doo that...
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"Dr Williams warned that a combination of family break-up and parents' reliance on things like television and video games was harming childhood and creating "infant adults"."Pester power! I try to educate my kids against the free toy, to be weary, that if they have to trick you like that there's a big, bad reason e.g. McDonalds junk food and Kelloggs' cereal cardboard. (more Kelloggs propaganda banned). My counter measures work for a day or so... Then, we're back to square one. It's relentless, as is the TV ads. As is walking past the cereals, going into the Co-Op. (I very rarely shop at Tescos, preferring the daily walk to the shops and a natter with the staff.)
I'd like to write a letter to the Co-Op and ask them not to sell kids' toys in the store. The £1.99 jewelry, or the £2.99 guns and cars. I know they're cheap rubbish, but I say no, because they don't need them, it's not a birthday, they've not been to the dentist. It'll get 20 minutes of attention, maybe. I say yes to this, and I get nagged for something bigger, and bigger and...And the ads on TV grab their attention more than the rubbish they watch. They think they're hard done by because they don't get everything the see on TV. Grrr.
Bonus linkage: Nickelodeon and Kelloggs get sued in the US: "Of 168 ads for food that appeared on Nickelodeon during CSPI’s review, 88 percent were for foods of poor nutritional quality. The September and October issues of Nickelodeon magazine contained seven full-page food ads, all of which were for junk foods. Of 15 foods bearing Nickelodeon characters at a Washington, DC, supermarket, 60 percent were junk foods, including Fairly Odd Parents Orange & Creme Miniatures Kit Kat bars and SpongeBob SquarePants Wild Bubble Berry Pop-Tarts."
Decoding this... We fed your kids donkey's eyebrows and goat's tails disguised as turkey twizzlers, and made very good money. Now, we can't, and we're even losing the high profits on the branded sugary water, and fattening choccies. You gotta pay us directors and shareholders compo so we can maintain the lifestyle we've become accustomed to, or your kids can starve.
We'll have to see what Jamie Oliver can do to turn it around?
Under the terms of the deal, RM will design, implement and manage an ICT service supporting around 14,000 pupils in 24 schools in Stoke-on-Trent.
No financial details of the deal were disclosed."
Decoding this... The LEA just saved a packet. Which means they can spend more on dinners or buildings. The sales guy earned a packet after wining and dining the purchasing officer. The Directors and shareholders of RM dipped their beaks too. The people who do the work are badly trained, poorly supported, poorly paid, lack motivation. Too many are job's worths. The teachers will be pulling their hair out, the kids will be badly educated.
Of course, this is my opinion, based on anecdotal evidence from schools I've visited who have had RM in the past.
