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Articles | Mal Lee

Mal Lee and Lorrae Ward (2012) Identifying the Benefits of School Technological Change

 

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How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System

How to Break Free of Our 19th-Century Factory-Model Education System | Pedagogy and Research Theory | Scoop.it

More than 150 years ago, Massachusetts became the first state to provide all of its citizens access to a free public education.  Over the next 66 years, every other state made the same guarantee.  The result was a publicly-funded system where, in every American classroom, groups of about 28 students of roughly the same age are taught by one teacher, usually in an 800 square-foot room.  This model has been the dominant archetype ever since. 

 

It's a factory-model classroom...

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John Cleese on Creativity

John Cleese on Creativity

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What Is Creativity? | Powerful Learning Practice

What Is Creativity? | Powerful Learning Practice | Pedagogy and Research Theory | Scoop.it

School/Cohort: Australia’s Connect U

Team Name: Creativity

Team members: Mel Cashen, Jodi Woodward, Michelle Blanksby, Kynan Robinson, Kristen Swenson, Simone Hobbs, Kimberley Hall, Elyse Gill, Clare Rafferty

Problem, Issue, or Possibility: What is Creativity? What do learners need to be creative? How do you assess creativity? How do you create a creative environment?

Objectives and Assessment: Our main goal for PLPConnectU is to create an integrated (cross-curricular) unit with our topic being Creativity. Once completed, this unit plan is something that all of us should be able to implement in our classrooms, regardless of grade level...

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The Flipped Class as a Transition to Deep 21st Century Learning | Flipped Learning

The Flipped Class as a Transition to Deep 21st Century Learning | Flipped Learning | Pedagogy and Research Theory | Scoop.it

How does flipped learning fit encourage research based best practices? I see flipped learning as a transitional pedagogy/technique...

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David Kelley: How to build your creative confidence | Video on TED.com

TED Talks Is your school or workplace divided into "creatives" versus practical people? Yet surely, David Kelley suggests, creativity is not the domain of only a chosen few.
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Gever Tulley: Life lessons through tinkering | Video on TED.com

TED Talks Gever Tulley uses engaging photos and footage to demonstrate the valuable lessons kids learn at his Tinkering School.
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The 7 Biggest Creativity Killers

The 7 Biggest Creativity Killers | Pedagogy and Research Theory | Scoop.it

After analyzing up to 300,000 Torrance scores from children and adults (the gold standard in creativity measurement), it has been discovered that although creativity scores rose along with IQ scores until 1990, creativity scores have since dropped significantly.

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Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy | Powerful Learning Practice

Flipping Bloom’s Taxonomy | Powerful Learning Practice | Pedagogy and Research Theory | Scoop.it

I think the revised Bloom’s Taxonomy is wrong.

 

Hear me out. I know this statement sounds heretical in the realms of education, but I think this is something we should rethink, especially since it is so widely taught to pre-service teachers.  I agree that the taxonomy accurately classifies various types of cognitive thinking skills. It certainly identifies the different levels of complexity. But its organizing framework is dead wrong.  Here’s why.

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Flipped Learning is the HOW of Educational Reform | Flipped Learning

Includes a video of Steve Kelly as he talks to the Michigan State Board of Education about the flipped class

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IMAGINE: How Creativity Works

Flash Rosenberg imagines how the ideas in IMAGINE are tackled, tickled and teased-out by the author Jonah Lehrer.

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