Group items tagged

A particularly significant initiative is a dedicated ITE website called Education for a Sustainable Future, jointly owned and managed by the Institute of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and the Moray House Faculty of Education of the University of Edinburgh. Developed from a Scottish ITE module and the EU funded SEEPS Project, which promotes school focused programmes in education for sustainability, it provides on-line supported self study materials, consisting of activities and resources linked to a study guide. It is organised into seven units.A particularly significant initiative is a dedicated ITE website called Education for a Sustainable Future, jointly owned and managed by the Institute of Education at Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU) and the Moray House Faculty of Education of the University of Edinburgh. Developed from a Scottish ITE module and the EU funded SEEPS Project, which promotes school focused programmes in education for sustainability, it provides on-line supported self study materials, consisting of activities and resources linked to a study guide. It is organised into seven units.

Stick with it amd find the sutainability in the punch lines at the end. Self organisation. I witnessed this in Zambia in the early 1970's, but never realised what was going on!

"Education scientist Sugata Mitra tackles one of the greatest problems of education -- the best teachers and schools don't exist where they're needed most. In a series of real-life experiments from New Delhi to South Africa to Italy, he gave kids self-supervised access to the web and saw results that could revolutionize how we think about teaching."

"Give them a laptop and a group of pupils will teach themselves. The academic who inspired Slumdog Millionaire believes all pupils should be given time in groups with a computer to teach themselves"

"The two loops model has been a fundamental piece of The Berkana Institute's theory of change. As one system culminates and starts to collapse, isolated alternatives slowly begin to arise and give way to the new."

"For twenty years, The Berkana Institute has worked in friendship and partnership with people around the world who are discovering that there is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about."

"Most simply put, fractals are patterns that that are created using mathematical formulas that strictly control and guarantee their shape. "

Recent BBC2 interview with Sugata Mitra

"His theories begin to challenge some of the fundamental assumptions about learning in general, and learning with technology in particular, that underpin most of the formal systems of education."