The #OBC works best when the room is curious and occasionally challenging. So bring your questions, evidence, disagreement. Just perhaps leave the pitchfork at home!
📆 10th November
📍 Villiers House, 40 Strand, London WC2N 5RW
🕰️ 4pm - 6.30pm
https://t.co/u2ax3iLYyD
💻 AI is everywhere. We need a stronger collective Early Years voice on AI and digital childhood. Not to promote it for its own sake, but to examine it. Perhaps the most useful question for our sector is whether we are adopting it thoughtfully enough:
https://t.co/PMx816S8Bv
Around 4.5 million children in the UK are living in poverty, yet poverty is not always immediately visible.
In this podcast, I sit down with Baroness Ruth Lister of Burtersett, one of Britains leading voices on poverty and social policy:
https://t.co/LrDhzXnslm
💻 Technology is already shaping our nurseries, whether we consciously design for it or not. Some of it is obvious, other technology is almost invisible. And now AI is accelerating the conversation about AI in Early Years education.
https://t.co/9tDDiksqWh
@leyfonline#AI
The #OBC works best when the room is curious and occasionally challenging. So bring your questions, evidence, disagreement. Just perhaps leave the pitchfork at home!
📆 10th November
📍 Villiers House, 40 Strand, London WC2N 5RW
🕰️ 4pm - 6.30pm
https://t.co/u2ax3iLYyD
The next London OBC meeting is on the 10th November, and tickets are available now!
Please use the link below to get your ticket: https://t.co/9ibwYeIJuL
#LondonOBC#Ofsted#OfstedBigConversation
Goodbye to Gloria Steinem, journalist and feminist campaigner. Appreciated for her ability to listen to others, to make others feel seen and heard. Her words and actions, always true to her independent spirit, always with curiosity and a great sense of humour.
I recently received the 2nd edn. of Birth to Five Matters: Guidance for the Sector, by the Sector. I read the whole book, but found myself particularly interested in three things: sustainability, babies and child development. There is much to like:
https://t.co/1qdOho5Enh
What does digital agency actually mean for a three-year-old? I came home from the annual EECERA Conference thinking much harder about children’s how teachers & children can build digital literacy together.
My latest blog asks: are we ready?
https://t.co/KMxly4HLXs @leyfonline
We have a lot of selfish and socially-irresponsible people in Britain. They need re-educating and seriously punishing. We’re lobbying for MINIMUM fines to be increased to £1,000.
I have always liked a good conference. What I value is what happens around the edges: the conversation sparked by a speaker, the colleague who says, “We could try that." ...
That’s why I am going to the Cornish Early Childhood Conference in September!:
https://t.co/JU5NuGW0dI
In my latest Podcast, Chris Pascal and Tony Bertram share decades of research, experience and practical wisdom to explore the foundations of high-quality Early Years provision.
Listen now:
https://t.co/DlA8BUAjPi
📔 My newest book Nursery by Design: Creating Spaces for Learning and Belonging is out now!
Read more below, and the book is available to order on Amazon: https://t.co/cn5wbbsGbe @leyfonline
Arrived at the nursery this morning to find this tipped all across our little car park. We really need to address litter, its a metaphor for disregard and the children consistently tell us how much they hate it. @cleanupbritain@SouthwarkMayor@KeepBritainTidy