Schooloscope is a new project from BERG, and I want to show it to you. What if a school could speak to you, and tell you how it’s doing? “I have happy kids,” it might say. “Their exams results are great.” Schools in England are inspected by a body called Ofsted. Their reports are detailed [...]
The suite of UK education products we’ve been designing and building, codenamed Ashdown, is also known as School Report Card. I am extremely happy to say, today, that Ashdown is funded by an investment from 4iP/Channel 4. Read 4iP’s reasons for investing, and what TechCrunch Europe find interesting. For us, it’s the ideal project: Ashdown [...]
In the UK, schools are inspected every few years to make sure they’re educating kids well and run effectively. Ofsted, the agency that visits the schools and writes the inspection reports, yesterday released their 2008/09 Annual Report. It’s a 160 page beast of stats, strengths and weaknesses, everything schools and the government need to focus [...]
“Hello Little Fella” is a group I started on Flickr a few years ago, spotting faces. For a little while I had been taking pictures of objects, furniture, buildings and other things in my environment where I recognised, however abstract, a face. I tagged them with what I thought the appropriate greeting – “hello little [...]
Matt’s mentioned in the past few summaries of weeks that I’ve been working on ‘material exploration’ for a project called Ashdown. I wanted to expand a little on what material exploration looks like for code and what it feels like to me, because it feels like a strange and foreign territory at times. This is [...]
As Webb has mentioned in this week’s update, I’m leading a project in the studio called Ashdown, which is in it’s very early stages. One of the things we need is a researcher to undertake a small sub-project for a few weeks, to help us understand the territory we’re designing for. Have a read of [...]
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