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Links for 2012-02-15 [del.icio.us]

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• BalancEdTech - Thinking Space - Design Thinking School Wiki of notes from my Detroit Design Thinking and Formative Assessment day.

Links for 2012-02-14 [del.icio.us]

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• How to move your lessons from good to outstanding | Teacher Network Blog | Guardian Professional Time to Pose, Pause, Bounce and Pounce!
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• Dévalorisée, usée, écrasée | Anne-Marie QuesnelL'auteure est enseignante au privé depuis 19 ans. | Opinions An article, in French, showing a teacher who works too hard and doesn't let her students take control of the learning. The result? Burnout
• La culture des réseaux comme idéologue pédagogique Une classe exemplaire : la classe verte du « Party textuel »

A competence-based curriculum: RSA Opening Minds workshops

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RSA Opening Minds promotes innovative and integrated ways of thinking about teaching and learning. It helps students to develop the skills they need to be creative, resilient learners, citizens and employees of the 21st century by making its starting point not school subjects, but competences students require to find their place in society. To help teachers and principals find out...

Links for 2012-02-13 [del.icio.us]

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• Du studio à la classe ; Le "Design Thinking" pour transformer notre vision de l'école ~ Stephen's Web Ewan McIntosh weaved what can only be called magic at the conference I attended at Clair 2012, in northern New Brunswick. It wasn't simply because his French is easier to follow than his English ;) - he wove a tapestry of ideas together talking about what it is that will draw out students, interest them, engage them, and get them to be more than just followers of orders. It was one of the best presentations I've even seen - visually beautiful, low-keyed, personal and engaging.

Links for 2012-02-11 [del.icio.us]

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• Syria - Friday 10/02/2012 - Google Maps

Links for 2012-02-10 [del.icio.us]

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• Mr. D - YouTube

Links for 2012-02-08 [del.icio.us]

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• Hyping classroom technology helps tech firms, not students - latimes.com
• Making 2012 plans: mozilla + web makers « commonspace At the most recent Mozilla Foundation board meeting, we dug into the question: what concrete things can we do in 2012 to tackle our big picture goals around web makers? I’ve pulled together board slides plus a summary of our emerging plans in this slidecast:

Do you teach from the bandstand?

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Do you have a plan that you stick with, no matter what? Do you have a plan at all? Do you have a plan that you're prepared to give up totally when a student proposes something, anything, interesting? Are you patient, listening to what's going on, allowing yourself to be pulled, and slick enough (skilled enough?) to react and create...

Stop ping pong questioning. Try basketball instead

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A little run of posts inspired by my favourite educationalist of the past decade, Dylan Wiliam. He's the chap that explained formative assessment to me in twelve pages flat, and changed my practice forever. In this two-minute clip he pleads with us to move away from IRE questioning (Initiate a question to the class, Response comes from one child, Evaluation...

Links for 2012-02-04 [del.icio.us]

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• It's Not Time For Imagination? | Canadian Education Association (CEA) Imagination and creativity cannot simply be inserted into our school systems as a “value-added” feature. It’s not about developing a curriculum that teaches imagination, and its certainly not about creating a box on the report card that accounts for imaginative thinking.

Making a creativity-friendly school timetable

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School timetables work for so few people, yet it's only a few daring souls that seem to be prepared to change them. A new piece of research adds to the evidence that more flexibility is required to make the most of the latent creativity in our learners and teachers. At NoTosh we're working with several schools on reshaping their school...

Invest Time To Make Time

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One of our proudest long-term Design Thinking School programmes is taking place in Sydney, Australia, with MLC School. Back in November we kicked off a programme of pedagogical change, to inform a new school bulding, with an intensive design thinking workshop. More on that soon over on the NoTosh site. It has already led to a different type of language...

Why does innovation in education take so long? Field, Habitus, Identity - that's why

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I spend my life convincing educators to do things differently. Of late, we've taken the policy at NoTosh of not working with a district or school unless the Principal, the Head Honcho, the Boss is in the room participating. Why? Because the Field, Habitus and Identity developed by all the teachers in the room will provide the eventual block to...

Design Thinking 2: Immersion - don't give students a problem to solve...

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The Future Belongs To The Curious - so says this compelling clip passed on by Christian Long. But so say the scores of teachers with whom we work, when we suggest to them that the average 13 years of compulsory schooling content can be covered, easily, in less than 13 years time if, in fact, students choose what they cover,...

Release the reins of learning: an annual post-script from... my mum

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I don't do guest posts, but when it's your mother it's hard to say no. A year ago I wrote the Times Education Supplement's New Year editorial, If you truly want to engage pupils, relinquish the reins and give them the chance to learn by doing. At the time, my ideas were young, we had only been playing with them...