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10 X 10 photos with 100 words from the last hours RSS news feeds. Can give data for hour, day, month or year. A new way of looking at the present and the past.

Consider useful article from Henry Jenkins MIT on New Skills and new curricula

"Record-breaking solo yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur is in Davos to promote a new approach towards a sustainable economy. She wants products to be made that they are easy to disassemble in order to re-cycle the parts inside. She claims that the approach, called a circular economy, could mean savings of $630bn for Europe alone. "

Dec 1st speech , worth a read. Look out for promises in New Year. Strange how short memories are about changes brought in by Tatcher Gov't based on National Curriculum advocated by Callaghan!

"The GLP is a ground-breaking new programme which will create a national network of like-minded schools, committed to equipping their students to succeed in a globalised world by helping their teachers to deliver effective teaching and learning about development and global issues at Key Stages 2 and 3."

A new programme. Worth taking part.

"New analysis of 2009 US Department of Agriculture figures suggests biofuel revolution is impacting on world food supplies"

Learn 4 Life contains in-depth news about innovation in education in the UK and the world.

Learn 4 Life contains in-depth news about innovation in education in the UK and the world.

Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun and save money. Includes factsheets, information on local courses, a shop, a forum and more.

Low-Impact Living Initiative (LILI) is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to help people reduce their impact on the environment, improve their quality of life, gain new skills, live in a healthier and more satisfying way, have fun and save money. Includes factsheets, information on local courses, a shop, a forum and more.

"Recycling.co.uk is The Heart of Recycling in the UK, providing advice and tips to the public about what can be recycled and how to recycle it. We update our Recycling Guide regularly as new processes and technologies are developed. "

Two years ago Harris student commissioners were given the quest of finding out how to make learning at Harris the best it could be. We were asked to become 'leaders of learning'. This meant discovering new ways of learning from experts - in our schools, across the UK and from around the world. As leaders of learning we have worked for all students at Harris so that learning can be improved for every single one of them

In El Alto, Saturnina and Felipa learned to knit and weave. Job after job, both received low pay, late pay or no pay at all. At one point, Saturnina's boss was paying her $4 per clothing article which he would then sell in Germany for $70. Saturnina and Felipa grew tired of seeing themselves and other rural migrants exploited. So in 2000 they founded a women's collective called the Integral Association of Kullakas (IAK). 'Kullakas' means 'sisters' in the Aymara language. They used this word to symbolize their interdependence with the Aymara and with the world. Says Saturnina: 'We decided that we needed to help each other.' Nine years later, the collective - of which Saturnina is President - continues to teach handicraft and farming skills. Saturnina's living room is where women come to be trained. The room displays colourful scarves, hats and dolls made by hand, often entirely out of the fleece of the alpaca - similar to the llama - which is warmer and softer than sheep's wool. Fifty per cent of the price of each product goes to the woman who made it, while the rest goes to communal living costs or to buy new materials. The Kullakas are constantly on the lookout for markets so that they can pay women as quickly as possible.

Putting a price on a tree changes people's attitudes and if developers think in financial terms, then a community asset must be valued in the same currency, he says.

"The two loops model has been a fundamental piece of The Berkana Institute's theory of change. As one system culminates and starts to collapse, isolated alternatives slowly begin to arise and give way to the new."

Proposals for new Framework for National Curriculum. An important and impressive document. Trying to make sense of current situation and suggest a way forward. "Can't please all the people all the time."

"'In Transition 2.0' is nearly ready to be unveiled to the world! We are very excited about this inspiring new telling of the Transition story, and want to tell you more about it here, and about how it will be rolled out over the coming months."

An important new book.

""a shaking of the traditional pieces of the global geo-political puzzle and their landing in a new and unfamiliar configuration." "

"YouTube science lessons Science lessons can be fun and creative as well as educational. A new campaign called Your Science showcases five exciting science experiments filmed in schools around the country to establish the nation's favourite."

World News for Children

Six myths about the foundations of modern education, and six new principles to replace them. David Orr article