Tag: young people

My favourite parts of Upfront Mini 2015

7 October 2015

Yesterday I was lucky to attend Upfront Mini – a smallish (150 person!) one day conference about Front End Web development – the parts that appear in your browser! I particularly liked this part of the introduction: #Upfrontmini: "we have a code of conduct – some conferences don't take it seriously – we do" — […]

Shouting quieter makes things better :: How I learnt to yell less and win more.

15 November 2012

At quite a young age, I realised I enjoyed arguments; a second to face up one's opponent of the moment – a chance to put them down with cruel language – an opportunity to let go and lose one's temper. Of course, it was all about being on the winning side, and with those wins […]

The Pirates: Just a political party for a certain age group in Sweden?

4 February 2012

At Learning Without Frontiers Conference, Keri Facer, Professor of Education, Manchester Metropolitan University said: …in Sweden we have the first political party, that, if you like, is allying itself with a particular age group – the Pirate Party. I don't think this is true. I mean sure, in Sweden there's a political party called the […]

Well done Laura Dekker!

21 January 2012

Some of you may remember Laura Dekker – the plucky young dutch girl who, as a 14 year old, was involved in a massive legal battle with the dutch child protection agencies to allow her to sail round the world single handed. Laura,  who has been sailing from a young age and was born on […]

A tribute to Richard Rothwell

22 July 2009

Many reading my blog will not have heard the name Richard Rothwell and thus will have very little idea of his significance in the early days of DFEY. I first encountered Richard, like many others, via the Schoolforge-uk (SF-UK) mailing list, with his posts on free software and LTSP related subjects. Ben Webb and I, […]

Reflection #1 on Byron Review

14 April 2009

Parents are worried their children will not be able to tell the difference between Reality and Virtual Reality (in a game or online). – Byron Review In actual fact, the children grow up knowing the different expectation in social behaviour for the two different environments where as the parents never have. —Tim Dobson – a […]