Your heart's pounding, you’re sweating, your hands are trembling, and no matter how much you breathe you're struggling to get enough air, fear is taking over. The more you fight it, the more debilitating it feels and the worse the situation becomes.
#1 - What you resist persists, what you accept you can affect
#2 - Realise that there are no panic “attacks” – only panic-ing
#3 - What is the positive intention behind the process you are running?
#4 - Get curious – what is the process of panic-ing?
#5 - When you feel the process begin, get experimental, interrupt it and change it with this technique
But if your organisation is rusted onto ‘best practice’, how can it adapt to the change to ensure survival? Through IEDs, enterprise IT, disruption and governance.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
Something many in educational settings are will aware of... lack of responsiveness and flexibility militates against innovation and locks "best practice" into a meaningless and restrictive barrier to improvement.
At the end of June, Google and five other members of the FASTER consortium added a $300 million 60 Tbps (terabits per second) fiber optic undersea cable between Japan and the US to increase connectivity speeds.
The company is now extending its efforts to benefit Web users across Asia with a new 26 Tbps cable linking the FASTER cable in Japan to Taiwan, which houses Google’s largest data center in the continent.
In our series, Better Teachers, we’ll explore how to improve teacher education in Australia. We’ll look at what the evidence says on a range of themes including how to raise the status of the profession and measure and improve teacher quality.
This bystander’s guide to Islamophobic harassment was created by a young illustrator and filmmaker who works in Paris and goes by Maeril. She made versions in both French and English.
We will be hearing from a well known woman on the spectrum about the lived experience
We will discuss the latest research on gender and autism
We will be sharing the research under way in the Autism Centre of Excellence into anxiety and discussing the impact of anxiety autistic women across the spectrum
Today, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) is inviting eight selected partnerships between institutions of higher education and non-traditional providers to participate in the EQUIP (Educational Quality through Innovation Partnerships) experiment.
These partnerships will allow students—particularly low-income students—to access federal student aid for the first time to enroll in programs offered by non-traditional training providers, in partnership with colleges and universities, including coding bootcamps, online courses, and employer organizations. The goals of the experiment are to: (1) test new ways of allowing Americans from all backgrounds to access innovative learning and training opportunities that lead to good jobs, but that fall outside the current financial aid system; and (2) strengthen approaches for outcomes-based quality assurance processes that focus on student learning and other outcomes. The experiment aims to promote and measure college access, affordability, and student outcomes.
EQUIP falls under the Experimental Sites Initiatives, which test the effectiveness of statutory and regulatory flexibility for postsecondary institutions that disburse federal financial aid. Through the EQUIP program, the Department seeks to learn about these new models and their costs and educational and employment outcomes for students, as well as explore new methods to measure quality. Testing and learning from this program may help inform future policy reforms.
We’re very excited to announce the release of EasyBib EDU, a powerful resource for schools that helps students conduct effective, ethical research and accurately cite their sources. Best of all, it’s absolutely FREE!
EasyBib EDU combines our-well loved citation features with tools specifically designed to assist students as they conduct research, evaluate content, and create finished projects.
London's Shakespeare's Globe is working with Adam Matthew Digital to convert its scholarly resources into digital content.
The theater organization, which includes an archive library and education division, is dedicated to the exploration of Shakespeare's works and the playhouse for which he wrote more than 400 years ago. The material covered under the agreement consists of multiple documents related to the research undertaken by founder Sam Wanamaker to rebuild the theater as closely as possible to the original version put up in 1599, as well as archival content related to every performance produced in the recreated theater
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CCAT Seminar – Excellence is Bullshit Presenter: Cameron Neylon
Discussant: Humanities PVC Alan Dench
The Centre for Culture and Technology (CCAT) would like to invite you to attend a seminar by Professor Cameron Neylon. Humanities PVC, Professor Alan Dench, has kindly agreed to take on the role of respondent.
The resurgence of xenophobia in Australia troubles Clarke. She sees an “awful synchronicity” between past and present. Her parents left England in the 70s, soon after Enoch Powell’s infamous “Rivers of Blood” speech, which decried black immigrants and predicted that foreign children would overcrowd hospitals and schools. Two decades later, Clarke watched Pauline Hanson’s entrée into politics with a shockingly similar maiden speech, accompanied by a shift in public sentiment around race and immigration. Unsurprisingly, she is not optimistic about Hanson’s return, the rise of One Nation and Islamophobic rhetoric.
“I feel as if there is really a global post-colonial situation at the moment,” which especially victimises children, Clarke says. “There are children’s bodies being brutalised or being washed up on beaches. We see brown children being locked up on Nauru and in Villawood Detention Centre. We see things like Don Dale and Indigenous communities having their funding cut.”
In recent posts I've written about the importance of vision and the need for leaders to anchor conversations around technology use in that vision. After the most recent post, Gary Stager shared an article he wrote titled Outside the Skinner Box: Can
One of the best things that could happen to the rental market would be the introduction of a mandatory test for landlords.
Kim Flintoff's insight:
You have to take a test before you can serve alcohol, drive a boat or car, do plumbing work or be a property manager. But when it comes to providing shelter for an individual or family, the only prerequisite is buying a property.
Arcadia are landing in Australia this November for the first time ever, with three shows and two community open days exclusive to Perth.Transforming recycled military machinery and industrial components into spellbinding new worlds, the Arcadia Spectacular shows are the ultimate immersive experience.With senses electrified and imaginations flowing, THE LANDING SHOW, first of the Arcadia trilogy fuses ground breaking spectacle, technology, sculpture, engineering, architecture, theatre and adrenaline into a mesmerising and utterly unique performance.Uniting audiences of all backgrounds, creeds and colours into a crescendo of celebration, Arcadia Australia seeks to forge new communities under the 50 tonne, fire breathing spider as thousands dance together as one.Each show at Elizabeth Quay will feature a varied and dynamic mix of artists, including a global first with Yallorr Keeninyarra – Dance of the Wadjuk Nyungar/ People.
Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Challenging Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Exclusion
Human rights are critical for achieving the UN’s Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development. Across the globe many people’s rights are violated everyday, creating injustice and instability that threatens our collective future.
Human Rights, Human Wrongs: Challenging Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Exclusion is an 11-week course that focuses on human rights and their link to the sustainable development context, particularly in terms of the advances, or lack thereof, in achieving women’s rights across the globe. The course brings together two different perspectives on rights – the legal and the social– to explore what implementing a rights-based agenda entails. The course examines how rights are understood and lived around the world, and what are the barriers that prevent rights from becoming a reality.
Human Rights, Human Wrongs begins by discussing the evolution of the international human rights frameworks. It discusses how human rights, and their denial affects the lives of excluded groups, and the ability of countries to deal with the challenges of sustainable development. The course brings a particular focus to the global politics around the human rights discourse, with a discussion on the nuances of promoting ‘inclusive’ approaches and their possible effects on shifting the responsibility of alleviating poverty to the excluded groups themselves. It highlights the intersections of issues related to human rights, such as how gender interplays with ethnicity and the rights of indigenous peoples, as well as how human rights influences responses to conflict and disaster. The course not only describes pathways to a more inclusive and just society (SDGs 5, 10 and 16), but also raises questions on the role that human rights can play in achieving all of the SDGs. The course is designed to engage students in debating and discussing difficult, complex issues at the intersection of politics, human rights, gender relations, social relations and economics and power.
Your experiences, views, and voices matter. Please join us as we collectively explore this journey in asking questions, exploring perspectives and building solutions that will create a more sustainable world - a world that leaves no one behind.
Ireland has just become the latest country to make preschool programs available to all three year olds.
There is a clear move internationally towards delivery of two years of preschool, with early education being understood as a critical investment in human capital.
It’s no longer enough for teachers to get a credential and then sit back and teach the same content year after year. Richardson says to be part of modern learning, teachers need to actively educate themselves about the context students live in and how they can improve as educators.
“There’s never been a more amazing time to be a learner,” Richardson said. “How are we in education not running towards that in our own personal lives and embracing that?”
It’s not just about connecting on Twitter with other educators or asking for professional development about technology. If teachers are waiting for a planned PD about something they are probably already stuck. “You have to have the disposition of an eight-year old to find your own learning,” Richardson said.
Jared Swart for The Chronicle You can order Gnome Chomsky, the Garden Noam for $195, plus shipping. A "What Would Noam Do?" mug can be yours for $15. "Colorless green ideas sleep furiously," an oft-repeated demonstration of how words can be simultaneously grammatical and nonsensical, is available both as a bumper sticker and an iPhone case.
The physical and virtual escape games build valuable 21st-century skills. Here's how it works
There is a new platform for immersive learning games that’s taking classrooms across the world by storm. Based on the same principles as interactive Escape The Room digital games — which challenge players to use their surroundings to escape a prison-like scenario — Breakout EDU is a collaborative learning experience that enhances critical thinking and creativity while fostering a growth mindset in students.
There are two types of games available for teachers to run in their classrooms: the physical games (which are the main games) use the Breakout EDU box (or any box with a hasp that can be locked) with a set of locks, and the digital games which only need internet-connected devices.
As they play these fast-paced games, students work collaboratively to find clues while using critical thinking skills and deductive reasoning to solve puzzles that reveal the lock combinations before time expires.
TeachMeets are relatively new, free professional learning events organised by teachers for teachers. These popular events comprise interactive sessions with a format of three or seven minutes of sharing ideas, usually after school hours. TeachMeets provide face-to-face education encounters for teachers at all stages of their careers, designed to focus on sharable resources and ideas for practice.
In addition, school-based and corporate conferences are becoming a popular supplement to more conventional annual events held by education associations. Such professional learning offers teachers access to a range of educators from classrooms, research groups and private think-tanks who are working on school reform and the digital dimensions of schooling.
“When we have a rich meta-strategic base for our thinking, that helps us to be more independent learners,” said Project Zero senior research associate Ron Ritchhart at a Learning and the Brain conference. “If we don’t have those strategies, if we aren’t aware of them, then we’re waiting for someone else to direct our thinking.”
Helping students to “learn how to learn” or in Ritchhart’s terminology, become “meta-strategic thinkers” is crucial for understanding and becoming a life-long learner. To discover how aware students are of their thinking at different ages, Ritchhart has been working with schools to build “cultures of thinking.” His theory is that if educators can make thinking more visible, and help students develop routines around thinking, then their thinking about everything will deepen.
Sky News is reporting that parents believe sexting is a serious risk – but most have not spoken to their children about it, according to new research.
Via Tom D'Amico (@TDOttawa)
Following the lead of Google in the US, Melbourne telco DGtek is launching a 1 Gbps suburban GPON fibre service this month to serve homes and businesses hungry for bandwidth.
The service will begin connecting customers at the end of August, starting in the beachside suburb of Elwood and extending across Melbourne's densely-populated inner south-eastern suburbs. DGtek is also evaluating plans to extend to Adelaide and Sydney, along with regional Victoria starting with Geelong.
Unlike most gurus, “James is on a very personal journey, allowing his readers and listeners to experience it in real time,” said Brian Koppelman, a creator of Showtime’s “Billions,” who also moderates “The Moment,” a podcast on Slate. “He’s telling you the story on Saturday, on Sunday he’s talking about how it failed, and on Monday he’s talking about doing it a different way.”
Mr. Altucher, in fact, disputes that he is a guru in the first place. “I am not a self-help guy at all,” he said.
“Advice is autobiography,” he added. “I only say what has worked for me, and then others can choose to try it or not.” Besides, what worked yesterday may not work tomorrow.
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