Leadership Conversation. This 'online brainstorming'has now ended and weare analysing the feedback.
Welcome to the Leadership Conversation’s 'online brainstorm' Thank you for joining us – we really do appreciate your participation. The purpose of this ‘online brainstorm’ is to gather a multitude of ideas about how the education and training sector needs to consider ‘leadership’ over the next 10+ years - focusing on the critical question of what sector leadership will need to be like in the future in the face of new and changing challenges and opportunities. Engaged Learning. The political interference in education in the UK plumbed new depths this week.
In an interview with the BBC, the head of our schools inspections agency, Sir Michael Willshaw, showed signs that the constant briefing against OFSTED is starting to get to him. Two months ago, he responded to a critical report by Policy Exchange (a right-wing think tank set up by the Education Secretary, and therefore totally free of political interference) with: ”I was never intimidated as a head teacher and I do not intend to be intimidated as a chief inspector”. He also lashed back at right-wing critics of the education system who, he said, wanted “children to be lectured for six hours a day in serried ranks”.
The BBC reported him as saying that rote learning was not enough to produce successful learners in the 21st Century. Your Unguided Tour of #TDReflex14. Welcome to the unguided tour of The Reflexion Programme at The Northern College (or #TDReflex14 as it’s known online).
Whether or not you are participating in the Reflexion Study Days at the College (see here for more details), your participation is equally appreciated. (And, just to be clear, the ‘course’ refers to the Reflexion Study Days, the ‘uncourse’ to everything else that happens on- and off-line). Your guide for the tour is Lou Mycroft. You’ll also meet Kay Sidebottom (@kaysoclearn) and Chris Bradbury (@chrysbradbury) if you join us. Please do watch the video below. Thinkers. A Social Purpose Resource List 2012. Sennett Podcast - Sociology Bites. McLaren - Freire and Che. Brookfield - Eduard Lindeman. Lambert - Redistributing the Sensory-the critical pedagogy of Jacques Ranciere. Digital. Practical Guides. The Sociable Organisation. For people of my generation who went to school in the early 70′s, the image above is probably typical.
Even before we could read or write our names, most of us were encouraged to associate them with ‘our space’. I say encouraged but we had no choice. We were probably also encouraged to link that space with an image. I imagine there were some schools where that image was a self portrait, a family photo or a school mug shot Polaroid. In some cases I imagine that image and space was associated with gender. We went along with this, we had no choice. Twitter for Academics. Blogs. Get it together. What can we learn from digital curation of content?
Let's start with some theory: According to the revised Bloom's cognitive taxonomy by Anderson and Krathwohl, 'creating' is suggested as the peak of achievement. It replaces evaluation as the pinnacle in this revised model, but many have wondered why Anderson and Krathwohl suggested it in the first place. Learning with 'e's: Wikipedia: A Marxist perspective. Next generation learning. Academic Papers. Baym - Music and Social Media. Rourke and Coleman - Reflective and Collaborative Blogging. The habitus of digital scholars. The first paper coming out from my PhD has just been published by the the Journal of Research in Learning Technology, 21(0).
The Complete Guide to Evernote in Educat - Provenzano, Nicholas. Teaching from your Values. McCraty and Childer - The Appreciative Heart. Rhizomatic Learning. Thoughts about community as curriculum in #rhizo14. February 12, 2014 by jennymackness Source of image- (Richard Giblett) The idea of community as curriculum is not new.
Etienne Wenger wrote about it in his 1998 book on communities of practice - and since no ideas are truly original, his thinking was probably influenced by prior writers -but nevertheless his book is the most thumbed on my bookshelf and in 1998 he wrote that education is: ‘… about balancing the production of reificative material with the design of forms of participation that provide entry into a practice and let the practice itself be its own curriculum… (p.265) He has grounded the idea of ‘community as curriculum’ in the practice of the community, but he has also stated very clearly what he means by community and what he means by curriculum. There is clear evidence from communities of practice that the practice itself is its own curriculum. Trying to write Rhizomatic Learning in 300 words. I got a very simple request from someone a few weeks ago to give a 300 word description of rhizomatic learning for an upcoming book.
I thought “hey, 300 words, that’s not a big deal”. Moron. Learner Identity. Ahl - Motivation in Adult Education. Grow - Teaching Learners to be Self Directed. Be More Saga. Teacher Identity. Colley - Learning to do Emotional Labour. Priestley - Understanding Teacher Agency. Pelias - The Academic Tourist. Graham and Phelps - Being a Teacher. Lunenberg et al - The Teacher Educator as Role Model. Woolhouse and Cochrane Self-Identity.
Impostor Syndrome. Brookfield - The Perfect Ten Syndrome. Guante: Starfish (Spoken-Word) Reflexive Practice. Matthews and Jessel Reflexive Practice. Warin et al Reflexive Practice. Bannerman Choreographer's Writing. John Warren Reflexive Teaching. Without mistakes, we’d still be amoebas…and there would be no music. …or something like that.
I’m misquoting from the biologist Lewis Thomas, talking about DNA changes and how they create the richness and diversity all around us on this planet. Yesterday was the first of the Diversity Programme study days, a strand of our EDIFund action research project. Fifteen educators, drawn from all manner of backgrounds, joined me at The Northern College to explore new models of diversity and differentiation, and how we could strengthen our practice as educators. Image of DNA It was an education in humility. Much of the past three months has been spent planning, discussing and thinking about this piece of work. Win Win Win. McGivney - Understanding Persistence in Adult Learning. Critical Pedagogy. Critical pedagogy: schools must equip students to challenge the status quo. The pedagogy popularised by E.D.Hirsch, and recently promoted by the likes of Civitas, reduces teaching into nothing more than a bleak transmission model of learning.
Hirsch's theory focuses on what he calls "cultural literacy". He argues that all students need a "core knowledge" so they can develop into better citizens. In one of his books, he lists various facts, phrases and historical events that he believes all young Americans should be aware of, including the Founding Fathers and Adirondack Mountains. It's Hirsch's belief that if children aren't taught such cultural literacy at home, responsibility for it should lie with schools. He developed a structured curriculum to deliver this, which is now being advocated by an increasing number of schools and academies in the UK. What is Hybrid Pedagogy? Transformational Education. Field - Adult education as a social movement - inspiring change or fading dream. Hopkins - Empowering Education. Tolliver - Transformational Education. Embedding Diversity. Aftermath. This is a short post, because I don’t know what to do with my sadness at a well-known educational technology blogger with a huge following, who’s so enamoured of his own popularity that he writes an April Fools farewell note to blogging, that references the personal impact of blogging on him in terms of hate mail, threats, and clinical depression, and then spends the aftermath passing on the supportive tweets he got from people who responded with concern for his wellbeing.
This, edtech, is our own tiny little version of the #CancelColbert satire moment. Great Talks. Ellen Page Comes Out: Ellen Page Full Speech At LGBT #EllenPage HD. 48 Reporters Asked This Guy The Same Dumb Question About Women. His Response? Absolutely Perfect. Present & Absent Identities. I, too, am Oxford. Chapman - The Language of Respect. Love,race,%20liberation. Chapman - Hard to Hear. Black Female Voices: A public dialogue between bell hooks and Melissa Harris-Perry. Pickering - A fair, just and inclusive Transition.
“Black people don’t go to galleries” – The reproduction of taste and cultural value. David Osa Amadasun by David Osa Amadasun Since childhood I have always been curious as to why rich people were rich and the poor were poor.
Fast-forward two decades and that same curiosity has evolved into a call for action to do something about the insidious ways in which inequalities infect our daily lives. It was during the second year of my undergraduate degree, at the age of 32, that I became aware of the limited exposure I had had to certain social and cultural resources as a child and young adult. Close the Book on Hate. Equality vs Justice. Diversity of opinion. Philosophy for Children. Gallacher - Learning Cultures. Ego and The Swarm. “Everything, a bird, a tree, even a simple stone, and certainly a human being, is ultimately unknowable. This because it has unfathomable depth. All we can perceive, experience, think about, is the surface layer of reality, less than the tip of an iceberg.” Ros Ollin - Silence. Disruptive Thinking - Luke Williams.
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