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Summary

The opportunities, aspirations and entitlements of young people are the focus of significant debates and policy developments. But how do these debates and policies reflect and support young people’s own interests, aspirations and ideas about what their lives should be like?

Greater Expectations explores the issues that matter to young people in their lives and learning, asks how they can feel empowered and motivated to achieve their aspirations, learn about their entitlements and create change, and examines what role digital technologies can play in that process.

The three-year project will deliver 'Infocow', a free-to-use, learner-centred resource that aims to support young people to have a voice and take action around the principles and issues important to them. To accommodate a wide range of users focusing primarily on young people aged 14-19, but secondarily involving parents, teachers, children’s professionals, policy makers and those in the technology industry, Infocow will provide possible links, examples, tools and gateways that illustrate how young people can be confident, engaged and supported agents of change and how technology can enable and facilitate that to happen.

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Project type and status

Ongoing research project - this project is part of Futurelab's Harnessing Technology: Next Generation Learning work programme, supported by Becta.

Partners

Becta

Outcomes/Publications

Greater Expectations (Open Space Discussion, 2 October 2008, London)
Learner voice handbook

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Greater Expectations

Work experience opportunity

Work experience opportunity

As part of the Greater Expectations project we are looking for 10 small groups of Infocow ‘partners’. These groups will work with Futurelab to help develop and manage our brand new resource ‘Infocow’.

We are looking for groups of between 3 or 6 students aged 14-19, who will need to be supported by a teacher or mentor. The group will be involved from late March 2010. Please contact Kieron Kirkland for more details or click here for a pdf outlining the role.