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Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things
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5 Simple Questions To Encourage Student Voice
This is a recent resource I have shared on Twitter that has proven really useful and very popular with educators. Thanks to Rebecca Alber and Edutopia for sharing/creating the original. You should...
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3 Variables That Profoundly Affect the Way We Respond to Feedback
As Ken Blanchard says, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” But it would seem there are certain things that dictate our appetite for feedback. According to Sheila Heen and Douglas Stone, the...
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Interesting Ways to Use Evernote to Support Learning
Another Interesting Ways resource to share with you. This time we are looking at Evernote one of my tools I use daily and something that has great potential in the classroom. As you can see we have...
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7 Things To Remember About Feedback
I came across this originally via David Truss on Twitter and Google+ and thought it would complement my previous post about the science and art of receiving feedback - 3 Variables That Profoundly...
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Saying You Don’t Know Fuels the Desire to Find Out
It was with a fair dollop of trepidation I took to a stage last week at Edutech 2014 in Brisbane and shared some ideas about creative learning. Marginally due to the number of people, but mainly it was...
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Moving Back and Forth Between Fantasy and Reality
During my keynote at Edutech a few weeks back I outlined some of the false pedagogic dichotomies that are present in education. In addition to these supposed tensions there are natural forces and...
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Surprise Makes Us Curious for Longer
I have often referred to times when my son George is faced with new experiences as “moments of flux”. These newly discovered pieces of understanding cause a shift in the knowledge George has and...
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Learning in Perpetual Beta
For today’s post I thought I would explore a little more deeply the themes and overlapping thinking surrounding my previous post about a Mindset of Failing. In particular I’d like to unpack this...
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My EDtalk Interview from ULearn14
During my trip to New Zealand last October I was contributing some sessions on design thinking for learning to the impressive ULearn conference in Rotorua. Strangely it was the first time I had spent...
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Education Suffers from a Lack of Knowledge Urgency
Dave Binks, a headteacher you would happily call a leader, was one of the first principals I worked with. He gave me the space and time to enjoy my teaching, to innovate and explore the untrodden...
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Convene your Classroom Creative Council
During some research on Thomas Edison I stumbled on the fact that he deliberately surrounded himself with a diverse range of expertise in order to generate new thinking and ideas, a creative council....
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What Makes People Creative?
When you start to explore the literature around the definition of creativity, or what it means to be creative, the lists and references go on and on. In this post I wanted to share a few key...
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My Reflection on #28daysofwriting
It was in about early January when I began to mull over the idea of getting back into a writing habit. I wanted to renew the discussion and connectedness I enjoyed through my blog and get myself...
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The Trouble With Passion Based Learning
It would seem that the concept of passion based learning (the other type of PBL) has found a place amongst the burgeoning lexicon we use to describe what happens in school these days. The emergence of...
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Tired times are good for my brain
Half asleep and still travelling. That usually describes me at the end of a day with a leadership team or a client group. And it is in those moments when I know I should force myself to think harder...
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The winds of change are blowing wild and free
The word has finally been made public that I am leaving my job at the end of June. After five years working as a consultant I have decided to start my own business here in Australia. I want to build on...
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Innovation Compression
A tiny little robot busies himself. Seemingly alone on a planet he collects rubbish and scrap and compacts it. Neatly stacking thousands of these efficient little cubes in an effort to clean up....
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Avoiding Masterchef style feedback
Her eyes widened and her mouth fell agape. I suspect the ticking clock suddenly stood still and the taste buds, that had become her all powerful ally, dried up as fast as an unwatched pan of pasta. Her...
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Name Your Perspective
If you have spent any time with me in small group development sessions you will likely have heard me talking deliberately about perspective. I am always keen to make explicit what can often be an...
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