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Comment on Education is killing creativity by Nina

Nina — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:54:00 +0000

Sir Ken is one of my all time favourites, and I truly agree with his message about education systems being created for the needs of the society (well, industry, actually – but that sounds too bad, doesn’t it?).

At the moment the only solution I can see is to move away from teaching and focusing to learning. This means for each and every teacher to start providing more freedom within a structure, more daily choices (big and small) with focused and targeted feedback in the classroom. Because if we wait for the change to trickle down from the top of the education system, we get to wait for a looooong time.

Usually I communicate this by telling teachers about the 3 essential Cs in classrooms: cognitive, constructive and cooperative learning. They are compatible with any curriculum, and emphasize the process of learning over the product (or performance) in classrooms.

Comment on On Lending Books by Stephen Rowe (@semrowe)

Stephen Rowe (@semrowe) — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 20:32:36 +0000

Strange, isn’t it? For readers books can be something so important, even though they can be easily replaced (well most of them).

Comment on On Lending Books by Tom Dye

Tom Dye — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 14:10:36 +0000

Oh, so very true. I’m more apt to buy a friend the book, than to loan them mine.

Comment on MetroVerse Project by semrowe

semrowe — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 10:22:17 +0000

“Can You Ride Horses There?”. The poem itself is a bit lengthy, so a selection of it will be used. I’m quite interested to see what other poems have been chosen, though I won’t have the chance to ride the bus to find out.

Comment on MetroVerse Project by Jacob M. Mooney (@VoxPopulist)

Jacob M. Mooney (@VoxPopulist) — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:20:17 +0000

Awesome. What poem, pray tell? Lots of memories tied up in the Metroverse for me, as well.