There is a well established academic literature presenting the case for investing in adolescent girls as a vehicle for social and economic progress. Anyone who has read Greg Mortenson’s Three Cups of Tea or Stones into Schools will also need…
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Less teaching, more learning
This has to be one of the most inspiring TED talks I have seen this year. Sugata Mitra talks about education as a self-organising system, or at least how it has become so with increasing access to information and communication…
Tagged with: learner centric, online education, student engagement, Sugata Mitra, technology
Posted in Exemplary practice, Online learning, Theoretical rationale
Posted in Exemplary practice, Online learning, Theoretical rationale
Time to dispense with the ‘fast food’ model of education
Compelling viewing ( … and thankfully no reference to the Paul McCartney example which is wearing a little thin). Do what you love to do, says Robinson, as education has to feed the spirit. A standardised model of education that…
Tagged with: disruptive innovation, Ken Robinson, student engagement
Posted in Academic literature, Creativity, Example assessments, Theoretical rationale
Posted in Academic literature, Creativity, Example assessments, Theoretical rationale
Disruptive education
I gave a talk this morning at a conference for teachers, public servants and industry partners connected with the Singapore FutureSchools project. A sum of S$80 million is being invested over a period of four years (2008 to May 2012),…
Tagged with: 21st century skills, connectivism, disruptive innovation, social media
Posted in Online learning, Theoretical rationale
Posted in Online learning, Theoretical rationale
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