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martin Couzins posted an update 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Teacher uses Google Glass for virtual field trips. He’s blogging about it here: http://agl-initiatives.org/teaching-with-glass/
martin Couzins posted an update 9 months, 3 weeks ago

Like this manifesto for engineering education http://bigbeacon.org/big-beacon-manifesto.pdf
martin Couzins posted an update 9 months, 3 weeks ago

A new approach to ’schooling’ is being developed in the Pacific School of Innovation and Inquiry in British Columbia. More details about the concepts, ideas, the ’school’ can be found here: http://www.learningstorm.org/
martin Couzins posted an update 9 months, 4 weeks ago

Enjoyed this read from a UK head on why we need to embrace new approaches to learning http://stephenperse.wordpress.com/2013/05/10/mr-michael-gove-provocative-and-wrong/
martin Couzins wrote a new post, It’s your world to shape, not just to to take 9 months, 4 weeks ago

It’s your world to shape from Responsible Subversives
John Abbott recently returned from a whistle-stop lecture tour of British Columbia where he shared the thinking of the initiative. A part of the trip […]
martin Couzins wrote a new post, Where does understanding for into the curriculum 10 months ago

In this week’s podcast, the 21st Century Learning Initiative’s Janet Lawley concludes her look at the curriculum.

Janet says that understanding brings us to learning, which brings us to what education is all […]
martin Couzins wrote a new post, Reconsidering the curriculum #2: skills 10 months, 1 week ago

Following on from last week’s podcast on knowledge, The 21st Century Learning Initiative’s Janet Lawley rethinks the second element of the school curriculum – skills.

The traditional school curriculum features […]
martin Couzins wrote a new post, Reconsidering the curriculum #1: knowledge 10 months, 3 weeks ago

Kicking off our three-part series on reconsidering the school curriculum, Janet Lawley looks at knowledge and how we acquire it. She argues that gaining knowledge to become a specialist is no longer enough – we […]
martin Couzins wrote a new post, Unicef research, well-being and education 10 months, 3 weeks ago

This week children’s charity Unicef published data that puts the UK in 16th position – below Slovenia, the Czech Republic and Portugal – in a league table of child well-being in the world’s richest countries. […]
martin Couzins posted an update 10 months, 4 weeks ago

Interesting to see that apps are being made by children coming out of private schools in UK http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-22032013 – interesting to see comments from the students saying how they were supported to follow their passion. This is something that is being squeezed from the state English secondary school system currently.
martin Couzins wrote a new post, The Eye of the Storm 11 months ago

The Eye of the Storm is both an analogy and a metaphor, describing that region at the centre of a violent tropical cyclone of mostly calm, windless conditions. Well experienced sailors understand that the safest […]
martin Couzins posted an update 11 months, 1 week ago

Interesting piece in The Guardian on the number of proposals that have not been put in place since the UK riots in 2011. The following passage is telling – it’s on ‘character’ – The report explained: “In asking what it was that made young people make the right choice in the heat of the moment, the panel heard of the importance of character.”…[Read more]
martin Couzins wrote a new post, Functional literacy 11 months, 1 week ago

We live in volatile and uncertain times and technology is powering change in the way we operate. So what’s the one thing we need our children to be comfortable with? Change.

In this week’s podcast John talks […]
martin Couzins posted an update 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Like this blog post on schools turning our children into ’performance management officers’ http://thinkpurpose.com/2013/03/24/grow-your-own-performance-management-officer/
martin Couzins started the topic What's the best piece of advice you've been given? in the forum Chewing it over 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Share the advice that’s been most useful to you!
martin Couzins wrote a new post, What’s the best piece of advice you’ve been given? 11 months, 3 weeks ago

At the end of the lectures John gives he usually gets asked how to turn the ideas of the 21st Century Learning Initiative into action. It’s a big theme for us and our thinking is that by being equipped with the […]
martin Couzins wrote a new post, It’s good to talk 12 months ago

Talking helps us humans to grow our brains and to keep them agile as we grow and get older. And being a social and inquisitive species makes conversation – the sharing of ideas about ourselves, others and past and […]
martin Couzins replied to the topic Battery hens or free range chickens? in the forum Chewing it over 12 months ago

I agree that the one thing that is common across parents, communities and even governments is the aspiration for our children to succeed. But what is success? I’d argue it is having a child that is free thinking, […]
martin Couzins posted an update 12 months ago

Really like this video – says a lot more than simply ’learn to code’. https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=nKIu9yen5nc#!
martin Couzins wrote a new post, Specialists versus experts 1 year ago

In this week’s podcast, John talks about the difference between experts and specialists. As a piece of related reading we have taken an excerpt from John’s book, Unfinished Revolution, which expands on this […]
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