Doug Belshaw's Open Educational Thinkering - Latest Comments in Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

Re: Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

Hilary — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 17:03:43 -0000

Thanks for this feedback. I'm involved in the informal education sector, being in the youth service and most of these sites will be good to share with colleagues. I'm just about to take part in discussions re E-Safety with the local childrens safeguarding board and hope that they are going to be forward thinking rather than restrictive. Think your idea of a conference around it would be great.

Re: Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

Doug Belshaw — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 02:06:09 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Jo. If you explore Slabovia.tv in a little
more depth, you start to 'get' the mocking irony of it. But then I'm a
27 year-old teacher and doctoral student and want to understand it.
I'm not so sure, as you say, whether a bottom-set teenager would 'get'
it.

I think it would be great if an organization like Futurelab could
convene a massive conference around the issue of E-Safety and
filtering. I know I'd go and present if necessary.. :-)

Re: Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavour.

JoRhysJones — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 18:43:13 -0000

Really interesting stuff here - thanks for reviewing it all.

I must admit that as a Languages specialist I am appalled by slabovia.tv - it goes against everything we try to do to create positive images of the world outside the UK, inadvertently encouraging even more stereotyping. As if the UK media isn't xenophobic enough - why do we still consider it harmless fun to call mocking Europe 'humour' - would a 1970's Miss Busty-World.tv setting be considered 'funny' still? Or a pink and camp Gay.tv?

Anyway - there is some really interesting and innovative material to explore here - so thank you. I agree that debate is needed urgently though about filtering in schools when most if this is inaccessible through schools as a result.