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Weeknote 16th Jan 2015

Posted on January 16th, 2015

Where?
London & York
What?
  • Analysing the data from our Flipped Learning trial into case study write ups.
  • Meeting with NFER colleagues in York to continue this analysis, plan the report and talk plans for future projects.
  • Analysing the results of a survey we've just run with children and parents on attitudes towards digital making.
  • Meeting colleagues from Pearson and Teach First to catch up on our various work.
  • Preparing for an internal Nesta workshop on experimental government next week.
So mainly lots of time buried in data from research preparing for write ups...

Writing

Tomorrow I am off to Birmingham to join one of the public consultation meetings about the proposed College of Teaching. Next week I'm attending the EFF debate above in person, off to the BETT show to speak on the Friday and join the ETAG team on the Wednesday, and starting the write up of a report on Digital Making I have been managing. It's going to be a busy week...

Weeknote 9th Jan 2015

Posted on January 9th, 2015

Where?
London
What?
  • Beginning 2015 with some planning for upcoming work over the next few months.
  • Finalising and commissioning surveys to collect data from young people, parents and teachers for a report I am writing on the current state of opportunities across the UK for young people to get involved in 'Digital Making’.
  • Reviewing the existing literature for the above.
  • Writing a specification for some research I am commissioning for another project.
  • Catching up with progress on the Remote Tutoring RCT we are running for EEF with both Third Space Learning and York Trials Unit. It’s all progressing well and the children are getting started on their second term of extra Maths tuition while we implement plans for data collection.
  • Writing up case studies I conducted last year as part of my Flipped Learning project. I’m off up to York next week to meet with colleagues and NFER and being to bring some shape to the outputs of this research.
  • Attending the ETAG meeting to discuss the draft of the report and recommendations to ministers.
  • Planning an internal Nesta workshop exploring approaches to ‘Experimental Government’.
Writing
Programming a new generation of digital makers - Nesta blog (not this week, but in case you missed it over the break)

I’ve also been running a reader survey over on my blog, if you read it please taken 5 mins to contribute.

Next week I’ll be continuing the Flipped Learning write up, visiting NFER in York, and heading to Birmingham on the Saturday for the College of Teaching consultation meeting.

Weeknote 4th July 2014

Posted on July 4th, 2014

Where?
This week I’ve been in London.
What?
  • Meeting my new director at Nesta Sylvia Lowe, and discussing where all my projects are up to.
  • Attending the Teacher Development Trust 2nd birthday celebration at the House of Lords. It was great to catch up with quite a few people I know through twitter, and to celebrate their success in encouraging CPD.
  • Meeting Bryan Mathers from City & Guilds to talk about future directions in assessment.
  • Updating Geoff Mulgan our chief executive on our education projects and future directions.
  • Workshopping Nesta’s values as part of an ongoing process to develop how we define and communicate what we do.
  • Organising visits to Visible Classroom schools to collect some video interviews with teachers about the project.
  • Researching and reading up on measuring education outcomes outside of standardised testing.
  • Planning an article for an interesting publication ARK schools are putting together.
  • Writing blog posts about each chapter of my book ‘The Thinking Teacher’ to be published over the next few weeks.
  • Initial planning for an event at Nesta looking at innovation in tutoring.
  • Presenting some ideas on moving our thinking from ‘ICT' to 'Technology Enhanced Learning' across the curriculum to teachers in London.
  • Writing a blog post for Ai media about our Visible Classroom project, to be published soon.
Writing this week
The Thinking Teacher: What’s it all about - First in a series on my book.
Oliver Quinlan