<%3Fxml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"%3F> Pills in australia » Order Viagra Online, Buying Viagra - Canadian Pharmacy, Best Prices. ]]> At the end of last year we at Germination were asked to put together a website for the – a campaign that was to be time tied (1 year) and specific in its aim to unite different interests in ensuring that creative and cultural activities continued to be used to educate our children. This was the result.

The campaign has since grown with over 1,500 people signed up and partners right across the cultural and education sectors – from big name cultural institutions like the , the and to the many, many schools in support. As parents around the country prepare their kids for the new school year, and we all get that post-summer-back-to-school feeling, the issue of what and how we want our kids to be taught comes into sharp focus. by shows that (see her statement in support of the campaign ) while another from . Now is the time to be pushing the issue up the agenda ahead of the . There are many as to why culture in education is really important – attainment levels, training for creative industries jobs and to name just three – and they need to be made forcefully so that the good work happening in schools around the country can be maintained despite the cuts.

It’s not just government that needs to be convinced however, and its not only about money. Through the campaign we’re aiming to mobilise professionals in cultural institutions, teachers who and parents to articulate why children learning through culture is vital to education, and how new local networks can be formed to support practice.

Tomorrow we push forward with the campaigns’ social media strategy – a growing , the requisite and activity and a number of blogs that will mount in content and regularity as we move towards the CSR. Post the spending settlement, we’ll then bring cultural professionals, teachers and parents together in a week long of activities under the to a manifesto for the future of ensuring children and young people learn through their links with the visual and performing arts, film making, trips to museums, music and so on. This is not a middle class campaign, but absolutely about ensuring all children get access to these activities that enrich and inform us. The will unite people with an interest in protecting cultural learning in our schools and set up local networks which will continue well after the event, and we’re proud that our work on the campaign will lead to a longer lasting legacy than simply communications fizz. The website will evolve into a dynamic site containing research and evidence about why cultural learning works, submitted by practitioners, that will live on after the campaign.

This is one of our biggest communications campaigns to date and we’re very proud to be involved. For more info and to . And join us for the in November.

JT.

]]> http://www.germination.co.uk/index.php/blog/campaign-for-cultural-learning/feed/ 0 Pills in australia » Order Viagra Online, Buying Viagra - Canadian Pharmacy, Best Prices. http://www.germination.co.uk/index.php/blog/jaron-lanier-you-are-not-a-gadget/ http://www.germination.co.uk/index.php/blog/jaron-lanier-you-are-not-a-gadget/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:49:53 +0000 admin http://www.germination.co.uk/?p=159 Brilliant talk at the RSA tonight – one of those events that give you a payoff you’re not fully expecting, and all the more satisfying because of it. Jaron Lanier – pioneer of Virtual Reality and musician amongst many other things – launched his book of the above title which, in essence, is a manifesto for people over technology, delivered with an unremitting optimism for the potential of the human spirit. His argument goes, and of course I’m paraphrasing, that after a generation of experiment, the evidence shows the web not to have delivered some of the things early evangelists (of which he was one) said it would. For example, the idea that open source would deliver the kind of bountiful return that would make producers (of music, software, literature etc) rich from the seed of their own generosity just hasn’t happened. The evidence, as you know from speaking to any musician trying to make an honest living these days – is that freemium has left many people poorer despite opening up the closed systems that went before.

What is has delivered is a collection of connecting experiments that haven’t really worked yet because we’re not allowing the full extent of human creativity to be applied to it – for reasons of walled gardens, proprietary behaviour and an over-reliance on the idea that technology will somehow take over from the people that made it. “The intelligence of computers and the kind of robots people tell you will take over the world, is as exaggerated as much as the intelligence of those that made them is underestimated.” Computers will take over the world? Well not on the evidence we have so far where experiments like Facebook are a rather dull and unimaginative way of helping people relate, and also built on a business model of shifting sand.

Larnier is, however, not an internet naysayer. He made pains to point out he LOVES the internet. Rather his point is there’s so much more that this technology can do – if artists and engineers could work together unfettered to make the adventure of human life in its greatest forms much much more seductive. Relying on technology to do this (which is limited) rather than the human spirit (which is not), is crazy.

A must read for anyone who suspects that behaviour on the internet as it is right now, is sometimes actually quite dull and could be made so much more liberating through aesthetics and humanism than just better and better technology. or read more about , and .

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