Kirsten Price talked on ‘Narratives in New Zealand schools: a radical experiment’. She introduced an interesting DVD but the links with narratives felt tenuous.

Harry Brenton is at Imperial and talked about ‘teaching dynamic medical processes using medical representations’ which was good but out of my field. Did make me think about how we understand and process information in different ways depending on how it is presented.

Rose Luckin’s paper was ‘When the NINF came home: guiding parents and children in the co-construction of narratives linking home and school learning’. This is based on a project where tablet PCs moved between home and school, giving parents a better idea of what was going on in school. I must say I didn’t warm to it as a project. Perhpas because I’m not convinced of the virtues of getting primary school kids to schlep tablet PCs round with them. Perhaps because I found the interface too irritating, perhaps because it’s pushing the school into the home. I think when you’re at primary school you should be able to switch off and play when you get home, not spend hours going through your day with your parents.