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One of the enduring sessions from the event in my mind was youth consultant Ruby Pseudo's talk on the reality of how young people use technology. In her own words, from her blog 'Ruby Pseudo Wants a Word':

Ruby Pseudo is a lucky girl who works with a network of young minds across the globe to find out what they want, wish for and need. It's also stuff they hate,

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If you missed the screening of Ivo Gormley's film 'Us Now' (or want to watch it again), there are clips, rushes and transcripts available at: http://usnowfilm.com/ and a highlights clip on YouTube:

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Channel 4's Battlefront follows 20 young campaigners trying to save the world. There's Alexander, fighting knife and gun crime in his neighbourhood through education. There's James looking to cap university tuition fees. And there's Rachel campaigning against Size Zero attitudes and their effect on the body image of young people.

I caught up with Lucy Willis from Raw media, producers of Batlefront, over lunch and she told me about the series via… Continue

Young people are online, OK. But most don't respond to 'learning' tools online, and certainly not traditional government sites. Channel 4 have put their money where their mouth is and put their youth commissioning budget heavily (nearly exclusively?) into online. So what can we learn from their experience?

The event this morning kicked off with some really interesting presentations from Matt Locke (@matlock) and Adam Gee (… Continue