Teaching is a very difficult job. (A good story about a little boy and his boots)
No real future unless we're a great deal more imaginative.
6 1/2 minutes of film. Inconvenient truth education. "We are the people we have been waiting for." http://www.wearethepeoplemovie.com/
Education is the key to solving the problems we face. It must be the right sort/appropriate.
Learning not restricted to time and place. The world's digital library is always open.
Teachers are the key to all of our futures. We are only as good as our average teacher. The definition of a good teacher is changing.
It's not books OR technology. "It's the whole ball of wax."
Climate change game made in the UK. "The first thing kids do is destroy the world." Then they engage. They try again and again and again to get it right.
The most environmentally radical are 6 - 9 year olds.
Moving images saturate the world. Using and reusing them to share is commonplace.
In these incredibly challenging time the creation of an education system that delivers what we need is a challenge to political will.
He talked about the Digital Economy Bill. It's not bad but could have been so much better. ISPs are trying to deny their part in moral issues on the web.
We've reached a point where incremental change will not do. The digital society could become ungovernable but it doesn't have to be.
Great teachers allow the knowledge that exists in a class to bubble up.
Young people are different. Example: We all had watches on but many young people do not have one function technologies.
Illegal downloads. Lord Puttnam can think of no industry that has succeeded by criminalising its clients.
Excellent anecdote about how he met vloggers and their engagement with RNLI.
