I have this constant dilema with myself and education. I don’t like the education system – it doesn’t work for me. I can’t stand sitting around being expected to be engaged in stuff for such a long period of time. Over days. Weeks. Years. What’s worked for me in the end is to find my [...]
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The Future of Education
Interesting article on Forbes asking whether Education will be the next industry to be killed by the internet. Some valid points are highlighted on how things are changing with the likes of MIT and London School of Economics offering (or planning on offering) online content, education, discussions, certificates, etc and all free or at a [...]
Blogging for Kids
We’re going on a long holiday soon. Not quite sure how long it will last at this stage…however it does mean that we are ‘unschooling‘ our two wonderful boys – currently aged 5 & 6. Aaron (our 6 year old) is starting to read and write. Ben still has a way to go, he [...]
Pi is 3.14159265….
Many of us have Pi = 3.14159265… drummed into our heads. There’s probably numerous other extremely other important things drummed into our heads. I remember Pi and doing maths related around to it. It wasn’t difficult at the time. My sons were telling us what Pi was. They’re too young to actually make sense of [...]
Interest led work activities
I was chatting to a mum today about life as working mother. What she use to do, what she’d like to do. What I do, which took a wee while to explain She described what I do as similar to the child led education approach that our boys experience at Lewes New School. Which is [...]
Ch-ch-changes…!
Ok, so my kids can lay their claim to fame. Their lovely school put a lot of love, energy and hardwork into creating the Changes song by David Bowie. It’s been made into a video and will very cooly be release on iTunes in mid September. How cool is that? You may be interested in [...]
Over 50% rejects acceptable?
In 2007 just 44% of young people achieved what the govenment considers to be the baseline: five GCSE passes including English and maths…school is dramatically failing, event at this most basic of tasks. Any manufacturer who consistently produced over 50% of rejects would not stay in business for long – source What’s the Point of [...]
Home education uproar
Home Education has always been on my list of options for my boys. Although I opted for Lewes New School in the end (which is fab) it’s still on my list…just not now, got too much on my plate at the moment. I’m not shy in saying that I think the educational system here mostly [...]
Who needs graduates, eh?
This article on the BBC has wound me up. The government is urging graduates to consider a spell working abroad, whether in internships or volunteering, to avoid the worst of the recession. The advice is backed by the National Union of Students and is being handed out on leaflets at universities over the next couple [...]
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I'm Rosie Sherry. I currently spend my time working on building up community and products for the software testing industry. This includes running the Software Testing Club, a community of 11,000 registered software testers. Producing The Testing Planet, bring awesome-ness content to software testers. And The Ministry of Testing - events and learning opportunities.
I love the web and all the opportunities it brings.
Keywords that describe me: (lean) startups, communities, social web, business strategy, collaboration, coworking and software testing.
I'm married with 3 young kids. One of my biggest drivers is to achieve a work life balance for my family. This isn't easy.
