Yesterday I spent the day at the Westminster Conference Centre, in London where the Department for Education (DfE) hosted an event, led by Victoria White, to talk about improving the reach and opportunities for impact of research on policy and practice. Firstly, let me applaud Victoria for running such an event at which approximately 70 [...]
Entries from September 29th, 2010
Mosquito Legs
September 15th, 2010 8 Comments
Well … they look like Mossie legs on this bug … but who knows. S/he was quite a pretty thing and I found it flying around the inside of my car.
So distracted was I the by the flying bug that I eventually had to pull over and take a photo before allowing for an escape [...]
Tags: wildlife
De-Innovation
September 3rd, 2010 1 Comment
I’m not sure what to call it really, but I’ll give you an example straight away:
In 2007, after Concorde was taken out of service, the BBC described it as a ‘technological pioneer’ and heralded it’s passing with the following statement: “Concorde’s designers put together an aircraft that was a triumph of innovation”. Of course there [...]
Tags: innovation · online learning · reflection
