YMCA George Williams College along with Y Care International have introduced a new Certificate in Global Youth Work. The aim is to “take youth and community practitioners on a journey to bring a global dimension to their practice with young people”. The interest in Global Youth Work has been a growing for a while. A while back [...]
Launched in September, ‘Being Victor’ is a live action teen drama shown online at MTV.co.uk. Interestingly it is the first mainstream online drama to offer curricular support for teachers to unpack the topical themes within the classroom. The content is pretty hard hitting and aimed firmly at young people. Through 20 episodes following the life [...]
Mark over at The Grove Is On Fire posted about this article on the Guardian website. It’s a thoughtful post from a school physics teacher about religious students in his classroom struggling to reconcile science and faith – what they see as contradictory approaches to understanding the world. He concludes: I can’t help but feel [...]
Following on from my previous post about the Tinkering School and how creating meaningful experiences for children allows better learning, is this article about the Kolle 37 playpark in Berlin, Germany. Here at the playground the children have the opportunity to build their own huts, make fire, work in the garden, watch and work with [...]
Gever Tulley, is the founder of Tinkering School and author of the book ‘Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do).’ He is also a self-taught computer scientist who holds multiple technology patents. The tinkering school offers an exploratory curriculum designed to help kids – ages 8 to 17 – learn how to build [...]
Techcrunch ran an interesting article today about ‘Time to Know‘, an Israeli technology company trying to revolutionise classroom based teaching. The basic thesis Time To Know is operating under is that today’s current classroom is following a teaching paradigm designed in the industrial age, i.e., a teacher standing in front of a class, a blackboard [...]
