ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

Category: Learning

New ways to search in 2017

We do a lot of desk research on the web, to find protocols we can recommend to clients, as well as looking for new material and content for the web sites we produce,…

Tackling Charity Social Media?

Skillsplatform.org have just published a new, very comprehensive charity social media tookit. The work, by Zoe Amar and David Evans offers the sector a profoundly useful resource to grasp the first principles of…

Julia Gillard and The Inaugural Annual Mackworth Lecture

We were invited to the Annual Mackworth Lecture on June 18th and extremely interested to listen to Julia Gillard, the previous Australian Prime Minister. The lecture was established and delivered by the Institute…

The Code Generation

‘ Learning how to program is the new Literacy,’ says Marina Bers from Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts. An article by Niall Firth in the New Scientist 6.9.14, shows how children are using…

William Tyndale School, UK
& Aleesah Darlison, Australia

Books Go Walkabout Projects 2013 One of our partnership literacy projects has been working in schools and letting children and young people talk to authors across the globe. Students from Year 6 at…

Making connections in the Storyverse

We think that our projects are about making connections. Connecting children with books, connecting people with communities, making information freely available on-line for those communities of interest…revealing new things in new ways. We…

Emotional creativity – imaginative landscapes…

  Shekhar Kapur and A R Rahman have created a new Bangalore based social network for creative expression – QYUKI. Using the internet and a web connection to set your mind and your…

Having an Idea!

You know that moment when suddenly the most brilliant idea comes into your head? What happens from then can either make the idea come alive or it remains dormant. Two young people who…

Volunteering in Children’s Centres

Children’s Centres and Volunteering is just the start… (Image courtesy of Pleasent Valley Children’s Centre) What better way is there for parents to get involved in their local Children’s Centre than through volunteering…

Practical wisdom, now more than ever…

We recently revisited the Gel talk, by Professor Barry Schwartz, of Swarthmore College, from the Gel Conference 2009. This presentation is about the need to embrace, or rather re-embrace, the notion expounded by…

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