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Beyond Current Horizons explores the future for education, beyond 2025. The aim is to help our education system prepare for and develop an ongoing and sustainable response to the challenges it faces as society and technology rapidly evolve.

Beyond Current Horizons explores the future for education, beyond 2025. The aim is to help our education system prepare for and develop an ongoing and sustainable response to the challenges it faces as society and technology rapidly evolve.

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!

This booklet helps teachers address the challenge of using technology in daily school life. It provides case studies and practical hints and tips including a checklist and web links.

Information for families looking to build or purchase a home, builders wanting to become greener, and estate agent. Also a useful resource for students researching the principles and technologies of ecovillages.

Information for families looking to build or purchase a home, builders wanting to become greener, and estate agent. Also a useful resource for students researching the principles and technologies of ecovillages.

as of 15 th Nov 2009 from Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies

Information Technology in Teacher Education site You can register. simple clear layout, uncluttered. Skip login to review/evaluate the site No seach facility, very basic.

The Deep Ecology Platform 1. All life has value in itself, independent of its usefulness to humans. 2. Richness and diversity contribute to life's well-being and have value in themselves. 3. Humans have no right to reduce this richness and diversity except to satisfy vital needs in a responsible way. 4. The impact of humans in the world is excessive and rapidly getting worse. 5. Human lifestyles and population are key elements of this impact. 6. The diversity of life, including cultures, can flourish only with reduced human impact. 7. Basic ideological, political, economic and technological structures must therefore change. 8. Those who accept the forgoing points have an obligation to participate in implementing the necessary changes and to do so peacefully and democratically.

"This area contains a range of articles, case studies and vignettes to exemplify how ICT is being used in the field. " Good source of ideas on how to use web2.0 technology.

Here we go again … our latest list of the 100 best websites sees short attention spans, the rise of Twitter, more browser wars and celebrity gossip sites setting the news agenda. The Guardian 9/12/09

The website aims to promote sustainable settlement for all by acting as an information resource and news service. \nVolunteers maintain a website of UK ecovillage projects, skills, and resources; provide current information on ecovillage theories and practices, alternative technologies, legal and financial resources to assist projects in setting up; hold regular meetings to share experiences and information; ncrease public awareness through presswork and the website.

"How do you save the planet? Chop down a tree and put it in a microwave. That's not a joke. It's the proposition of at least two dozen companies developing "biochar" technology that they say will suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and help curb global warming."

"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. "

"His theories begin to challenge some of the fundamental assumptions about learning in general, and learning with technology in particular, that underpin most of the formal systems of education."

Embercombe is a charity and social enterprise established \nto champion a way of living that celebrates the opportunities inherent in this \nchallenging time and that inspires people to energetically contribute towards \nthe emergence of a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually \nfulfilling human presence on earth.\n\nIt is our view that humanity now stands at a cross-roads - \na defining time in which we will make choices that will greatly influence our \ncollective future, for better or worse. We have become so numerous, so \nindustrious, so ambitious, and so technologically powerful, that we have the \ncapacity to orchestrate the destruction of our species, habitat, and future. We \nalso possess the imagination, the vision, and the intellect to learn from \nexperience, meet our challenges, and build a positive, sustainable future. A \nradical shift in awareness, values, and behaviour is required to meet this \ncritical transition.

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

Using business, entrepreneurs and consumers to move to a better world. Considers island cultures and their energy problems.

"After appropriate management changes land can remove CO2 from the air and sequester it in soil or above-ground biomass. Carbon can also be sequestered by forming biomass into human artefacts and preserving it, preventing its carbon from being returned to the atmosphere."

"The large reduction in the consumption of animal products within the zerocarbonbritain2030 scenario frees up land that can be used to grow biomass. One of the uses to which we put this biomass is to create biofuel in order to power those transport sectors for which there is currently no alternative to liquid hydrocarbon fuels: aviation, shipping, some heavy goods vehicles and some farm machinery." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on "Transport biofuels" a contentious subject.

"A sustainable, secure, efficient Britain can be powered without relying on fossil fuels or nuclear power." Summary from zerocarbonbritain2030 on Renewables