Chris Yapp got the day off to great start with a presentation that revealed his thoughts on the need to change the way think about what we learn, how we learn and the way in which this learning can be assessed. He described the ways in which every area of society is constantly changing, and suggested that the increased demand for creativity, innovation, design and personal/interpersonal skills is, perhaps, ill-served by an education system which still has the 3R's as its foundation.
Chris suggested that the experience of education has changed more for teachers than it has for children. He went on to say that rather than asking 'what can you do?' we should be asking 'what can you think?'
The site that Chris mentioned is www.microsoft.com/enable
I've obviously just touched on some of Chris's ideas here... please add your own comments.
posted by RJF @ 11:46 am
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I spoke to Chris afterwards about alternatives to traditional assessment and he suggested looking at the work of Guy Claxton at Bristol University. Anyone familiar with his work?
I attended a Nesta Futurelab conference where Guy was a speaker, and was fortunate to be in his working group later in the guy.
Guy's philosophy at the time was we need to teach pupils how to learn, to give them the skills and techniques to learn.
Another motivational speaker.
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