Plan B: 'Find out what kids are good at. It will change their lives' | Comment is free | The Observer I'm working really hard at the minute trying to finish my directorial debut, Ill Manors, which is a hip-hop-based film. When people ask me what the film is about, I say it's about all the things we read in the newspaper; the despicable things that I don't think many of us agree with when we read them. The papers tell us that they happen but they never tell us why they happen. So Ill Manors is trying to get to the bottom of why we have these problems in society with our youth, why we constantly keep on reading negative things about our youth. The reason I've done this is because I got kicked out of school in year 10 and no other schools would take me. I had to go to a pupil referral unit called the Tunmarsh Centre in Plaistow. I think the reason why we didn't have respect for authority was that we felt that we were ignored by society, that we didn't belong to it. Unfortunately, some of those words are negative. Damilola Taylor was 10 years old when he lost his life. And so he did.
Le plaisir : moyen et but de l’apprentissage Article en téléchargement ici L’apprentissage - de l’Antiquité1[1] à nos jours - a souvent été associé à la souffrance, à la pression constante, aux injonctions voire à la menace de sanctions. « No pain, no gain » disent les Anglo-Saxons. L’histoire de l’éducation et notre histoire personnelle tendent à nous présenter la souffrance comme ingrédient nécessaire à tout apprentissage. Forts de cette croyance et de nos bonnes intentions, nous proposons ensuite ce modèle à nos enfants. 1) Le jeu pour apprendre ou réfléchir est souvent refusé à l’école car il ne fait pas « sérieux » Pourtant, le jeu recèle de puissantes vertus pédagogiques. Il y a de fait un malentendu gigantesque entre le monde de l’enfant d'une part qui jusque là s'est construit en jouant et d'autre part, le monde de l’adulte qui estime trop souvent qu'il n'y a de travail réel, que dans la souffrance et le cérébral pur. 2) Les émotions, au cœur des apprentissages 3) Du plaisir aux plaisirs 4) Accueillir le désir d’apprendre
Barcelona's secret to soccer success Total entertainment right in your pocket Now you can watch live streams of your favourite programmes from BPL matches to the best of Asian programming anytime, anywhere on your mobile device. Watch over 37 LIVE channels, 12 Sports, 11 Asian, 4 Entertainment, 4 Kids, 1 Education, 3 Lifestyle, 2 News channels – free with your Singtel TV subscription1. And we’ve got something extra for our BPL footie-heads. The new and improved Singtel TV GO app features an all-new Football Portal, bringing our football fans much closer to exciting BPL action and news. You can track individual player’s action on a Heat Map, their personal statistics, team squad line-ups and catch up on the latest football news. Live Streaming Football Portal So how do I get Singtel TV GO? The app is now available for free download in both Apple App Store and Google Play store4. For access to live streaming, you will need a Singtel TV subscription with the corresponding channels on Singtel TV GO. Step 1 1. Step 2 2. Step 3 3. Tablet
40 Ways to use Google Apps in the Classrooom Google has been working hard to continually update their suite of tools recently. Different tools have been released on a regular basis over the last couple of months. Google Apps is actually a suite of Google applications that brings together a series of services to help an organisation like a school. It is a service that lets schools, and institutions use a variety of Google products -- including Email, Google Docs, Google Calendar, and Google Talk -- on a unique domain name (e.g.,www.yourschool.com). For instance, if you own the domain yourschool.com and you sign up for Google Apps services, everyone at your organization will get: A custom email address (user@yourschool.com)Tools for word processingSpreadsheets and presentationsA shared calendaring systemTools for creating web pages and sites for your businessAccess to a flexible intranet systemAnd much, much more! To give you a idea of how useful this service could be in your school the following GoogleDoc was put together.
Les cercles de développement affectif et social Les cercles de paroles, pratiques de développement personnel, avec ou sans enfants... Cette notion aujourd’hui en vogue recouvre différentes pratiques plus ou moins codifiées (parler à son tour avec ou sans "bâton de parole" suffit parfois à ce que l’on parle de "cercle de parole"). Je clarifierai la vision du "cercle de développement affectif et social" avant d’entrer dans la description des apprentissages que les cercles de parole permettent. Les cercles de parole Se sentir partie d’un tout La particularité de cette figure géométrique est que tous ses points se trouvent à égale distance du centre. « En tant que figure géométrique, le cercle a toujours eu un sens magique et, lorsque des personnes s’assoient en cercle, on y trouve une magie sociale. Proposer des relations non-hiérarchiques Dans les cercles d’enfants, le cercle permet l’égalité entre adultes et enfants. « Ils se sentent plus égaux car la hiérarchie, qui s’exprime par des lignes droites et beaucoup d’espace, est détruite.
The Illusion of Understanding Success 0Share Synopsis Our tendency to rely on narratives to explain the world distorts our understanding of what it takes to be successful. In December of 1993, J.K. Rowling was living in poverty, depressed, and at times, contemplating suicide. She resided in a small apartment in Edinburgh, Scotland with her only daughter. By 1995 she finished the first manuscript of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, a story about a young wizard she began writing years before. Rowling’s story, which includes financial and emotional shortcomings followed by success and popularity, is the rags to riches narrative in a nutshell. The reality of Rowling’s story, however, is just that: it’s a story. Yet, we humans, facing limits of knowledge, to paraphrase one author, resolve the myriad of unknown events that defined Rowling’s life before Harry Potter by squeezing them into crisp commoditized ideas and packaging them to fit a warming narrative. The same problem occurs in science.
Coder Dojo Romania Nine Things Educators Need to Know About the Brain, by Louis Cozolino In an excerpt from his new book, psychologist Louis Cozolino applies the lessons of social neuroscience to the classroom. The human brain wasn’t designed for industrial education. It was shaped over millions of years of sequential adaptation in response to ever-changing environmental demands. This mixture of conservation, adaptation, and innovation has resulted in an amazingly complex brain, capable of everything from monitoring respiration to creating culture. This evolutionary history poses a challenge for educators. If we are going to move forward, we will have to admit that a one-size-fits-all model of education is doomed to fail the majority of students and teachers. And through understanding how students’ brains actually work and using that knowledge to benefit classroom learning, we may be able to positively influence classroom education and prepare students to better face unknowable futures. 1. Our brains require stimulation and connection to survive and thrive. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.
What should we be teaching? By Kevin Washburn, on January 31st, 2012 What should we be teaching? This question received significant attention at the November 2011 Learning and the Brain Conference in Boston. The question reveals a consequential recognition: some of what we’ve taught and how we’ve been teaching it lacks relevance for today’s world and today’s learners. Wagner’s “Survival Skills” What we should emphasize instead, according to Wagner, are seven “survival skills” that today’s students (and many of today’s working adults) need for thriving in an increasingly technological world. Critical thinking and problem solving. In short, we risk maintaining educational systems that grow increasingly irrelevant if we do not attend to and respond to changes in society. It may be time for just such an examination. References Wagner, T. Image ‘Pillar of the Times’ (The Hartford Times Building, Hartford CT) by jwcreate.com