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Enquiring Minds

Enquiring Minds

skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard About Exploratree & Enquiring Minds About Exploratree Exploratree is a free web resource where you can access a library of ready-made interactive thinking guides, print them, edit them or make your own. You can share them and work on them in groups too. The Exploratree web resource has been developed by Futurelab and emerged out of our work on the Enquiring Minds project. With Exploratree you can: Use our ready-made thinking guides Make a new thinking guide from scratch Use it to set class projects Print them out (they can go as big as A0) Change and customise thinking guides, you can add or change text, shapes, images etc. The Exploratree idea came from observing the process of classroom enquiry. Enquiring Minds is a three-year research and development programme which aims to enable students to take more responsibility for the content, processes, and outcomes of their learning. Enquiring Minds Enquiring Minds is a three-year research and development programme which is run by Futurelab and funded by Microsoft.

Links Education Eye - Mapping Innovations Big Picture: A Better School Model? | Big Picture by Sarah M. Fine November 16, 2009 The Big Picture Learning Company structures high schools around the belief that kids learn best when they are doing what they love. In the world of American public education, this is nothing short of radical. It is a chilly Thursday morning in Rhode Island and the Met School’s Media and Performing Arts Center is hopping. I peer through soundproof glass into the Center’s conference room, where a group of colorfully dressed students sit around a seminar table. The Met, short for the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, is a state-funded school district that serves roughly 700 students in six small schools across Providence and Newport, Rhode Island. Curious about the scene unfolding in the conference room, I turn to Mike, the tireless 10th-grade “advisor” with whom I have been tagging along for a day and a half. Accordingly, Big Picture Learning schools push students to pursue “real work” whenever possible. It certainly seems that they do.

AddToAny - Share Button, Email Button, Subscribe Button Kings and Queens Come to Life: Retelling History Through Apps How do you visualize your thoughts? Are your dreams more like a sit-com or a documentary? English historian David Starkey thinks his thoughts and work are best represented through mobile applications after seeing his book, Crown and Country, turned into a rich media app. The goal of Starkey's app -- Kings and Queens -- is to bring his book, and history, to life. If you are familiar with the history of the British monarchy, it is one of the most fascinating tales of intrigue, betrayal, politics and power in the history of the world. "It's a case of the technology catching up with what I wanted to do," Starkey said in an interview with The Guardian's Apps blog. Starkey told The Guardian that the app, created by Trade Mobile, "reflects the creative processes of a writer." "All those things you've had to level out to make the line of narrative ... you can put back in," Starkey told the Guardian. Kings and Queens is interactive history at its best.

Projects My interest in cross curriculum projects started many years ago. Large scale projects like “The Colour of Music” and “What on Earth is Clay” honed my skills in collaborative, cross curriculum work. I worked with many professional artists and encouraged teachers from a verity of subject areas to get involved. I developed my skills in documenting achievement using apple technology, and along the way discovered the value of technology to assist student understanding. My colleagues’ and my students’ understanding of this exciting medium is constantly growing alongside mine. View the many new projects created using the current collaborative thematic enquiry approach and some of my earlier project work. Enrichment Photography Thursday, 13 June 2013 Lenka Novakova, an extraordinary teaching assistant, has worked with 8 students to develop their... Read more... Enquiring Minds- Rhythm Wednesday, 12 June 2013 Across the Pond - WPSD VIsit Oak Lodge Friday, 10 May 2013 Our History The Bully Machine

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