Corporal Punishment

I love the film Kes (1969). It was still modern when I went to sec­ondary school, nearly ten years later  — some local author­ities were still trying to get it banned when I was teaching in the 90s, and it’s still modern now. This scene, where the poor mes­senger boy from the second form gets beaten

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Sit and Listen

[This is a tad off-​​​​topic but has a 2.0 in it and so is fair game. Feel free to disagree.]

I was at a press briefing for the launch of a new report called Learning 2.0 from the CIM (Chartered Institute of Marketing) this morning (it’s not online till 21/​​2). They asked me what I thought of the title. I’m

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Kids, eh

via. Communities Dominate Brands

 

And appar­ently the most blogged about video on the ‘net at the moment. The URL of the creators, fleet­ingly referred to towards the end is http://www.mediatedcultures.net/ksudigg/

“… the basic idea is to create a 3 minute video high­lighting the most important char­ac­ter­istics of students today – how they

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