COMPLICATION
Change
The world has changed.
The students have changed.
Knowledge and learning have changed.
Schools and teaching have changed ???????
Here are two short presentations to promote some discussion:
See Think Wonder
Child Centred
- Individualised / personalised
- Information skills for active strategies to research
- Literacy for authentic and personal purposes and audiences
- Interests / enquiry focus
Creativity
Sir Ken Robinson – “Do Schools Kill Creativity?” TED Talk
“If human intelligences were limited to the abilties measured in IQ tests, most human activity would stop, or would never have started …..”
Out of Our Minds, Ken Robinson, 2001. Pg 102
Where to go for exciting, web-based tools to spark and interest?
Try ……. Cool Tools for Schools wiki