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Watching the RIBA Stirling Prize last night, I was of course rooting for Bexley Business Academy. The key architectural feature of this school is the open-sided classrooms. Architect Norman Foster claims he wanted to build a school like this in 1968, but wasn’t allowed to; in 2004 it’s still radical, but clearly an expression of…
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Stephen Downs is a respected thinker in the world of e-learning, and he’s been around it long enough to see an awful lot of money get wasted. Today he gave a talk to the Australian College of Educators and the Australian Council of Educational Leaders in which he challenged the value of wrapping up digital…
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Szexiong blogged this speech by Singapore’s Minister for Education We are making changes in our education system from a position of strength. The fact that our students by and large work hard and strive to do their best in school is a happy situation. In the UK, for instance, the situation is the reverse. A…
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Try this experiment Count litter in the playground Teach anti-litter lessons to the whole school, or perhaps do an assembly on it. Repeat the litter count every day for two weeks, and graph the result. You’re there ahead of me, aren’t you? You’d only expect the effect to be
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The start of the academic year is by tradition the time to promise yourself that your lessons will be more inspiring, more generative and more fun than they were last year. To help you along, here’s a challenge. Take just one item that grabs your fancy from this list of Marshall McLuhanisms and construct a…
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