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What should our priorities for learning be in the future?
What should our priorities for learning be in the future?
A major consultation is currently underway promoted by UK Youth, Futurelab and St George’s House with the support of The Royal Society of Arts to investigate the potential that non-formal learning has to provide a more inclusive educational offer to young people in the future.
The organisers are very keen to engage as many young people as possible in this discussion and have therefore developed a Powerleague to capture your ideas.
This league is intended to prompt discussion and debate over the roles that education should play in our future learning needs. It contains ideas that may seem familiar and others that might seem very strange, it contains ideas that may seem very desirable, and others that you would not want to see at all. Choosing one idea over another helps you to explore your own priorities, and the emerging league table provides a snapshot of the priorities of everyone else who is playing the league.
When you’re playing, imagine the world we may be living in 2025 and beyond, and choose the roles you would want learning and education to play in that world.
Alternatively, think about the role education plays today, and choose how you feel this should change over the next 17 years.
In the league, these very different ideas are also grouped into 4 different broader ‘educational functions’:
1. Specific skills
2. General skills
3. Socialisation
4. Personal growth
The first two groups are self-explanatory. ‘Socialisation’ refers the value of education to society and to the ways in which individuals become part of existing social structures. Personal development in contrast focuses on the value of education to individuals and the way education helps people to express their individuality and forge a place for themselves in society.
In reality, many of these overlap, but this categorisation offers another way of viewing the league and asking questions about what priorities you and others might have. There are many different and conflicting ways in which we might categorise the functions of education, these are intended here not as a statement of what we believe, but as a prompt for discussion and debate.
We do hope that you will want to participate in the powerleague and encourage others to do so as well. Every view is important.
Are you interested in more information about Powerleagues?
As well as this league, you can also make comments about items, groups or about the way in which the league is developing at : http://www.beyondcurrenthorizons.org.uk/powerleague/leagues/forum.php?league_id=1
Here you can also make suggestions for ideas that should be included, or for new ways of categorising and grouping the items.
Q: How are the league positions calculated?
A: There is a complex algorithm that determines how the items are positioned in the league. It works like this: each item is given a score, which is the proportion of votes it has won – an item with a score of 1 has won every vote it has been in, an item with a score of zero hasn’t won any votes, an item with a score of 0.75 has won three quarters of its votes; the higher an item’s score the higher its ranking. For any league the average score will be 0.5.
Note about the significance of ranking: Just because one item has a higher score than another doesn’t mean it is objectively more popular; if the scores are close together or not many votes have yet been cast, then it may be just luck that one has a higher score. We only say x is more popular than y if we are at least 95% certain that it is. For both leagues, significance can’t be calculated until everything has been pitched against everything else. For a league with N items that is ( N x ( N – 1 ) ) / 2. For a league with 70 items that will take 2415 votes. For a league with 73 items that will take 2628 votes.
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