So ... back to the Byron Review
I read and read again the exec summary and was taken by some of the analogies which I thought would make sense to parents and teachers and then I looked at the summary of the report for children and young people (The exec summary didn't appear to have a cover)
What is that cover about ?
What image is it trying to put over?
The title says 'BE SAFE, BE AWARE, HAVE FUN' ... great ... a screen tells me that 'I know who you are and where you live' another exhorts the reader to 'Shoot them all' ... A weird individual pops out of the screen saying 'I'm coming' and a hand reaches for a throat... wonderful ... HAVE FUN !!
What were they thinking of ?
I noticed later that the cover was the same for the main report !!
PS
My Google Alert for 'Byron Review' has reported 17 separate mentions over the last two days ...
posted by Doug @ 12:38
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3 Comments:
When I saw it I wondered what brief the young person who created the winning front cover was given and was there no other example there about having safe fun…
I looked at the documents with some PGCE students on Friday afternoon, we agreed the booklet for young people was a good thing but probably still too long. Generally we/they were annoyed by the two column presentation of the document. It looked as if the paper based document was put online as an after thought.. this happens too often.. sorry to sound off in your space Doug
Good point !! It would have been interesting to see if some of the other entries had positive images of using their computers.
Interesting as well about the two columns. Are they saying (do you think) that young people need a magazine format before they will engage with printed materials ? I suppose we could ask why the document is a document in this way and why multi-modality hasn't played a greater part.
It seems a very strange choice of front cover indeed. I'm only guessing that there was some sort of competition to design it and perhaps the young person involved was basing their design on what they thought would be most likely to win! As a parent I am guessing I am in a very, very small minority that has actually looked at the report and therefore the impact of the front cover is probably minimal. Which is good!
It's a shame as the cover does not portray the sense of the contents at all, which are largely positive. I think if the cover graphic had appeared in the press we would rightly have been strongly objecting!
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