The Act of Writing – Reflection
The act of writing stimulates thought, so when you cannot think of anything to write, start writing anyway. – Barbara Fine Clouse Reflective writing is […]
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Brainstorming – Design thinking Part 3
An integral part of the design process is brainstorming your ideas. Tom Kelley in his book The Art of Innovation, Lessons in Creativity from IDEO, […]
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Design Thinking – Part 2
Western thinking is based on “analysis.” In order, to understand information, to understand situations we need to analyse them. Through analysis, we break down complex […]
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Design Thinking as a classroom tool – Part 1
“It never about the right thing; it about the next thing. Humans lean into the future, and there is never a settling point. ” – […]
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Learning in the Modern Classroom
If we wish to inculcate 21st century skills in the children we teach surely we have to apply and implement these skills first as teachers […]
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Deep Learning and 21st-Century Skills – A series of thinking (2)
If the goal of instruction is to prepare students to accomplish tasks or solve problems exactly the ones addressed during teaching then deeper learning is […]
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Deep Learning and 21st-Century Skills – A series of thinking
Educational research continues to produce material at a far greater speed than any teacher can read. The concepts of “deeper learning” and “21st-century skills,” these […]
Continue reading »Education for Cognition – Where to next for the Classroom?
The goals for schools are changing, the curriculums of the world are changing, but is the practice in the classroom changing? An analogy of the […]
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Keeping the FOCUS
High order thinking skills are becoming more and more a focus of the curriculum, but how do we keep ourselves focused on including these in […]
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We are all equal before the Idea
Anyone can have an idea. If we are all supposed to be equal before the law, we are even more equal before the idea. The […]
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