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Why do (some) Teachers on Twitter seem so unwilling to learn?

On a warm Saturday afternoon, a few years ago, I was working in a school (it needs to remain nameless as it would be easy to attribute names to places, and I’ve no desire to name and shame anyone in this piece). Anyway, I was facilitating a student-to-staff training session. It was quite a well-known school, not previously known for progressive pedagogy, but here were an entire cohort of teachers being respectfully asked to allow students to co-design lessons, hold regular conversations about what great learning looked like, and remember the need for engaging lessons. The teachers took all of …

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The Global Learning Commons in Action

Sugata Mitra has done it again, following up the genius of his Hole-In-The-Wall project with the Granny Cloud. We’re lucky to have him in the UK. Here’s a clip from Ewan MacIntosh: Amplify’d from edu.blogs.com He is building on the Hole In The Wall learning experiment, where children autonomously access an ‘ATM’ computer on the streets of India and South America and, with their peers, learn through the activities and experiences in front of them. Not just that, but given most of the content they are accessing on the web is in English, they’re also having to learn English. All …

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Hole in the Wall Shows a Hole in our Understanding

At the edge of a slum in New Delhi, India, sits the offices of one of India’s biggest IT training companies, NITT. One day, one of its then directors, Prof. Sugata Mitra, se t up an experiment. He knocked a hole in the wall of the office which faced into the slum, and put in a PC and monitor equipped with Windows (in English) a broadband connection and a touch pad. He set up a couple of cameras and microphones and observed the local kids over the next few weeks. These kids had rarely been to school, had never seen …

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