Posts by: Simon
I had an incredible time hanging out with New Zealand educators at ULearn conference in October. On the first day I was asked to have a brief conversation with a few of CORE’s team about personalisation and the future of schools. I thought I would share it with you all.
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Too often we become stuck in thinking through the educational challenges in our own school, system or country. To explore new paradigms of organised learning it is often helpful to study other systems that are trying to respond to challenges of an entirely different level of magnitude. The Arab region is definitely one such region:
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Continue Reading →Everyone is talking about the flipped classroom. Sal Khan and his Khan Academy have become a household name in educational innovation. In brief the Khan Academy provides short video lectures on a range of school curriculum topics from maths and science to history. As with most disruptive innovators, Sal didn’t set out to change [...]
Continue Reading →As many of you know my international research on education system reform centres on the impact of the OECD’s Programme for International Student Achievement (PISA) which in 2009 involved over 65 systems world-wide. Last week I was in Israel attending the PISA Governing Board meeting and sharing my initial findings on the policy impact of [...]
Continue Reading →I am convinced we need to find ways new ways to ensure that more students can access the unique genius and abilities of our best teachers. No longer do students need to ‘be in the places’ that the best teachers teach. Rather they simply need access to high quality video of these lessons online.
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Continue Reading →There is some increasingly interesting research coming out of the States which is seeking to investigate the ‘block box’ of successful schools – what do effective teachers do?
Harvard’s Tom Kane backed by Gates Foundation funding is conducting one of the most remarkable projects yet. Launched in the fall of 2009, the Measures of [...]
Continue Reading →Sir Ken Robinson is a true Thought Leader on 21st Century Education. In this RSA animate, you will gain an insightful summary of the challenges to over-turning the industrial model of education.
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Continue Reading →Many emerging and aspiring leaders are waiting to be invited into leadership. The ‘do your time’ culture of many schools results in many aspiring leaders stagnating in their own leadership development. They shrink back from leadership in formal and informal ways – whether applying for positions or sharing their own innovative ideas. It is time [...]
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