Room With A View

The BBC reports on a study that states, “A major review of the curriculum for England’s primary schools
suggests that six broad “areas of learning” could replace individual
subjects.”

The areas of learning are:

I’ve heard rumors that Edublogs in unblocked in my host country. I’m not seeing it. Too bad. I find the whole blocking thing makes me choose to write in other places.

I spent some time this morning reading and thinking about Brian Lamb’s post Content. I agree with most if not all that he says on an individual level. I’m just not sure how to move an institutional, like the one in which I work, toward the ideas he expresses. Like one commenter said, I agree philosophically but I’m not sure how to make it work practically.

Perhaps it’s not a matter of making it work completely but more we need to move institutions in the directions he suggests. We need to trend them in the direction of syndication, PLE’s, openness, or re-use.