By Allan Alach
A potpourri of articles this week, concluding with a couple of more
positive ones on the way education should be developing. However as the first
article shows, there is little immediate hope while governments play the
corporate agenda. The biggest puzzle, to me, is why it is a supposedly more
left leaning Labor Government in Australia who are in cahoots with the
corporates. A secondary puzzle concerns the Australian Minister of Education
Peter Garrett. For those who don’t recognise the name, remember the Australian
rock band Midnight Oil, and their protest songs about Aboriginal land rights
(Beds are Burning) and uranium mining (Blue Sky Mining) ? Garrett was the
singer. Some inconsistencies here, Pete. For more, read Kelvin Smythe’s satirical posting.
I welcome suggested articles, so if you come across a gem, email it
to me at allan.alach@ihug.co.nz.
This week’s homework!
Joel Klein Comes Clean
Seems Common Core
Standards is all about enabling businesses to profit from education. What a
surprise.
Why
Creative Geniuses Hated School
Three creative geniuses explain why they
hated formal education. Never mind, we’re busy creating another generation who
will also hate formal education.
15 Reasons Reformers Are Looking to Finland
Yet another article on
Finland and its educational success. Those who want to deform schools in the
opposite direction clearly failed their own schooling.
Standardization
Will Destroy Our Education System, If It Hasn't Already
Title says it all...
Release of Primary School Data Disingenuous & Deluded
Waikato University
Professor of Education Martin Thrupp has released this opinion piece on the New
Zealand government’s processes towards joining the international GERM movement.
Shambolic. Deceitful.
How to Turn Your Classroom into an Idea Factory
Nothing to do with GERM….
“How
can we prepare today’s students to become tomorrow’s innovators? It’s an urgent
challenge, repeated by President Obama, corporate CEOs, and global education
experts like Yong Zhao and Tony Wagner. Virtually every discussion of 21st-century
learning puts innovation and its close cousin, creativity, atop the list of
skills students must have for the future.”
This
beautiful video about parabolas will 100% blow your mind
“Robert
T. Gonzalez
I know, I know. You're probably
wondering how exciting parabolas can actually
be, right? Well, it turns out that, in the remarkably capable hands of
mathematical rambler/artist/stream-of-conscious-doodle-wizard Vi Hart, the
answer is: pretty damn interesting.’
Apart from blowing minds, it also
demonstrates why standards based, tick the right box/supply the right answer
approach doesn’t work. We’ll just have to overlook the fact that the producer
of this works for Khan Academy!
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