What makes children learn?
“The starting point is to keep the flame of curiosity alive.” Ken Robinson adds more to this in this article.
Critical & Creative Thinking
“It’s also important to understand that creativity is not the only thing that matters. There are all kinds of competencies, such as critical thinking, which are implicit in any understanding of how creativity works,” Ken Robinson said.. “There are skills of collaboration, compassion, cooperation and personal composure, but the first thing for school leaders to recognise is that creativity is articulated with all of these other competencies.” Read more…
Ken Robinson speaks…
Taking centre stage at this year’s FutureSchools Expo and Conferences, the revered leader in innovation, creativity and learning ushers a hush over his crowd of eager educators- this is the moment they’ve been waiting for. Witty, at times hilarious, eloquent and disarmingly insightful, Robinson does not disappoint. He’s here to tell delegates how and what our education system has got wrong, and how schools, or “learning communities”, can be re-imagined for a better, more humane future of education.
Singapore admits “We are winning the wrong race in Education” PISA Results
Singapore’s Minister for Education, Ng Chee Meng, projected graphs depicting Singapore’s stellar PISA results. He then juxtaposed these to OECD data on student wellbeing, and also of innovation in the economy, revealing Singapore in the lowest quartile. His conclusion was stark: “we’ve been winning the wrong race”.
21st Century Subjects = Coding & Robotics
Chief Scientist Ian Chubb “If the digital economy is an arena, then the skills you need to play include computer programming and coding. Informatics gives us these skills and this event highlights the global nature and ferocity of the competition.’’ Start your own CODING SOCIETY. (see attached article). Don’t make the excuse of a crowded curriculum. Do it! We need to teach our students multiple languages. Now these include .net, HTML, Swift, Python and C++, it’s not really about the language, but rather about what you do with it. CREATIVITY!