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Parliament’s Education Service – Digital resources
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Contents
1. Overview of Parliament’s Education Service
2. Overview of www.parliament.uk/education
3. Social media
4. How Parliament works: some common misconceptions
5. Questions
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Section One
1. Overview of Parliament’s Education Service
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Parliament’s Education Service
“Working with schools to support young people’s understanding of Parliament and democracy”
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Goals
Parliament’s Education Service aims to:
> Inform young people about the role, work and history of Parliament
> Engage young people to understand the relevance of Parliament and democracy today
> Empower young people to get involved by equipping them with the knowledge and skills to take part
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Key activities
> School visits to Parliament
> Outreach to schools
> Teacher training
> Active learning projects and competitions
> Online resources
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Key achievements last year
> Over 40,000 school students visiting Parliament
> 2 million page views on www.parliament.uk/education
> 1,110 teachers trained
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Working with other Parliaments
> Outreach to schools across the UK
> School visits run with the Scottish Parliament, Welsh Assembly and Northern Ireland Assembly
> ‘Your Voice’ workshops mention local campaigns
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Website overview
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Formal learning: Whiteboard resources
> An introduction to Parliament
> Elections and voting
> Making laws
Teachers notes and worksheets / lesson plans accompany each one
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Interactive whiteboard resources
Example whiteboard activity: Compare the vote
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MP For A Week
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Learning outcomes
> Summary of the work of MPs, for example:• attending debates and making speeches• taking part in select committee inquiries• constituency duties eg. attending local events
> Decision-making: • Prioritisation of tasks• Making difficult choices eg. when loyalty to
constituents and party conflict
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Feedback
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Outcomes
> 2010 / 11 it was played approx. 82,000 times
> It has won several awards including gold BETT and e-Learning awards
> Positive comments from teachers
> One of the most popular items on our site
Challenges:
> Length of playing time
> Awareness of features for teachers
Go to MP For A Week
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Section Three
3. Social Media
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Social Media for Schools
Opportunities:
> Near-ubiquitous use of social media
Barriers:
> Social media sites can be blocked in schools
> Security of young people’s data
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Lights, Camera, Parliament!
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Engaging students directly
> Students don’t frequently visit the UK Parliament website
> Students do frequently visit social networking sites like Facebook
> To reach students directly, our content needs to be available in the locations they regularly visit
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MyUK
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MyUK
> A fun look at how laws are made
> Students can give regular updates to friends on Facebook or Twitter
> Shorter than MP For A Week, to fit patterns of social network usage
> Hosted on a separate website
> Attempts to appeal to students directly
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> Good platform for reaching teachers
> Currently used for announcing new resources, availability in our teaching training programme etc.
> UK Parliament Twitter seeks to stimulate dialogue eg. #AskGove
> New Twitter strategy in progress
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YouTube
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Section Four
4. How Parliament works – some common misconceptions
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Youth political engagement
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Three parts of Parliament
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Parliament and government
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Scrutinising government
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Parliament’s legislative role
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Parliament has nothing to do with me
An MP represents ... who? The functions of Select Committees
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Thank You