Professor Guy Claxton EDTalk | Can schools prepare you for anything?

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New from the EDtalks crew …

Professor Guy Claxton is well known for encouraging teachers to think about building their students’ learning power, and now asks the provocative question, “Can schools prepare you for anything?” Professor Claxton spoke at the 2012 Graham Nuthall Annual Lecture in Christchurch where he explored this question in full. Traditional education aims to raise standards by any means, but we are coming to see that preparing young people for tests, and preparing them for life, are different goals. How do we deepen learning so that it systematically builds the learning dispositions that the next generation will need? As work on Key Competencies and 21st century skills evolves it is becoming clearer just what it takes to raise standards in a way that helps kids be ready for anything.

After the lecture CORE Education’s Keryn Davis had the chance to ask Guy about the key messages he had for teachers wanting to deepen learning and build learning dispositions.

You can find out more about Professor Claxton’s work at:

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A Productive / Creative / Reflective Classroom

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A wonderful glimpse into the Year 5/6 classroom of Assistant Principal and Invercargill based Mark Herring.

Here's the background to the piece:

My teacher inquiry this year is to provide the parents of my class and school with opportunities to connect with their students and their learning. Some of the feedback I have been getting is that their child is 'backward in coming forward' about what's happening in class. The video is one of the strategies I hoped might help change their perception of 'a day in our classroom.'

I set up a laptop in the corner of the class and with the use of the isight and a time-lapse programme recorded 1 photo every 5 seconds from 8.30am till 3.30pm. The above was our result

Have you thought about doing the same in your classes? What do you think of what the video illustrates? How do you create opportunities for parents to 'see' the learning which happens with their children?

 

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Ten Trends 2012: Smart Web

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Annually, CORE Education explores ten emerging ICT trends that will impact upon the education landscape for New Zealand and beyond. These are known as CORE Education's Ten Trends. Each month we will post an in-depth article about each trend by a champion from CORE staff.

The increasing amount of technology and services linked and attached to the web is meaning it's evolving a collective form of intelligence; sorted by algorithms sifting through massive amounts of our data and usage patterns, plus making decisions without human involvement. The same space also allows for masses of people to share content, collate works, and interact around general and/or specific areas of interest. Thus it creates an opportunity of a collective knowledge and action. Some ideas and links referenced in the above video for further exploration:

EXTRA: CISCO internet of things infographic:

CISCO internet of things infographic

Where else do you think the emergence of the smart web will have an impact in education?

Information about CORE's Ten Trends

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Sir Paul Callaghan’s EDtalk | Turning knowledge into wealth

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We, at CORE, were very sad to hear of the passing of Sir Paul Callaghan. In tribute we would like to share his EDtalk from the Educational Leaders Forum in 2009.

In his talk Sir Paul Callaghan advocated a shift in New Zealand from a reliance on natural resources to knowledge and innovation. He asked us to think that even though there are unlimited opportunities, the challenge is to provide students with the skills required to create innovative new business.

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