Bring on the learning revolution

“Everyday, everywhere our children spread their dreams beneath our feet and we should tread softly.”

In this poignant, funny follow-up to his fabled 2006 talk, Sir Ken Robinson makes the case for a radical shift from standardized schools to personalized learning — creating conditions where kids’ natural talents can flourish.

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This Is How We Dream

Richard E. Miller and Paul D. Hammond, The New Humanities Collaborative, tell the story of how reading and writing have been transformed by the web.

What does it mean to write? to read? to publish?

The answers to these questions, once obvious, must now be reimagined.

This is How We Think: Learning in Public After the Paradigm Shift

In “This is How We Think,” Richard E. Miller and Paul D. Hammond explore how education must change now that we live in a world where information abounds, where reading and research have moved from the library to the laptop, and where the act of learning itself is now making its way out of [...]

Sir Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms

Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson asks how do we make change happen in education and how do we make it last

Here is Ken’s presentation in full.

Sharing

Sharing: The Moral Imperative

From the K12 Online Conference 20, Dean Shareski’s 2010 PRECONFERENCE KEYNOTE

This keynote looks at the new obligation of sharing for educators. With stories from the a variety of sources, the fact that we now have the ability to teach and share beyond our classrooms is moving from “nice to do” [...]

Pay attention

A message from T4 – Jordan School District Transforming Teaching Through Technology

Myth busting through data visualisation

Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen…

and here is Hans Rosling’s new insights on poverty…

and here is the tool to play with…. Enjoy.

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Dreaming, curiosity and connecting the dots.

I’ve been cleaning up my RRS reader Bloglines and came across these videos. I find them both truly inspiring.

The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch

A very moving and inspiring “last lecture” from Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch, who (Oct. 23, 1960 – July 25, 2008) gave his last lecture at the university [...]

Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

I saw this a while back before I started this blog and then forgot to include it. Better late than never I say…

Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity

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