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Teaching in contemporary learning spaces
The shift in the design of school facilities from teaching-centred classrooms to the design of integrated, purposeful learning spaces that support learning in multiple modes, creates challenges for many teachers, while others take it in their stride. Why is this...
The lessons Marie Kondo can teach us about the future of work
Involving everything from streamlining work processes to providing workers with virtual assistants, this “decluttering” process would free up the time and resources needed for workers to develop the skills that robots can’t – skills that Mr McEwan splits into two...
The Absurd Structure of High School
We are married to a system that has not been properly reevaluated for 21st-century capabilities and capacities.
Innovative school design focus on personalised learning
Campfire is where students learn from an expert, which could be a teacher, another teacher or a global videoconference; the cave is an opportunity for silence, reflection and deep focus; and watering holes for collaboration.
Traditional v the New Normal
We are constantly challenged and supported to collaboratively work with leaders, teachers, students and parents to co-design and establish a 'new normal' for preschool to post school learning.
Are we really running schools like factories?
The issue with the age-based class, is that there may be as many as half a dozen “learning years” separating the strugglers from the high achievers.