Video

Janey Walker

6 October, 2006Janey Walker
Our host Janey Walker, head of Channel 4 education, explains that currently they produce 300 hours of schools programming, but for many young people, parents and teachers that may be a difficult time to watch. This event is one of the ways Channel 4 is finding out what content, and access, work best for all concerned.

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Elizabeth Crowther-Hunt

7 October, 2006Elizabeth Crowt...
Elizabeth Crowther-Hunt is Director of Campaign Networks with the Make Your Mark - Start Talking Ideas campaign, which aims to inspire young people in their teens and twenties to turn their own ideas into reality.

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Margaret Ogebule

7 October, 2006Margaret Ogebule
Margaret Ogebule works with the Youth Board UK of the Network For Teaching Entrepreneurship ...

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Laurel Mahony Hargreaves

7 October, 2006Laurel Mahony H...
Laurel Mahony Hargreaves has worked in media production and as an art teacher, and reflects on how difficult it can be for students to see the relationship between specialist teaching in schools and the wider world: they may want to be a film director but say "I don't like art".

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Leon Cych

7 October, 2006Leon Cych
Independent educational consultant Leon Cych reports on a conversation about co-creation of content, and how 14-16 year olds could be engaged through the culture and practice of online video and content remixing. Content should be youth-generated - and compellng.

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Paul Turner

7 October, 2006Paul Turner
Primary teacher and ICT adviser Paul Turner is excited by what primary school children are doing with digital media, and wants to encourage teachers everywhere to take that up because it offers so many opportunities.

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Nigel Newton

7 October, 2006Nigel Newton
Education lecturer and researcher Nigel Newton is concerned about how a medium - television - that is often passively received, can be used to help students learn actively.

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Michelle Jennings

7 October, 2006Michelle Jennings
Michelle Jennings of the Learning and Skills Network says that her organisation and others provide lots of online resources for teachers - but they are under-used.

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Balj Bhinder

7 October, 2006balj bhinder
Balj Bhinder reports a conversation exploring how Channel 4 could do something innovative and interactive to help those students who need most support thinking about their lives, their careers and how they can move forward. One idea: programmes featuring "someone like me".

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Bert Buckley

7 October, 2006Editor
Bert Buckley suggests that Channel 4 could experiment with involving learners more in the way that programmes are made - and in listening to their feedback. People really come alive when they feel they are being listened to.

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