This headline caught my eye: “Australia’s classrooms among world’s noisiest” As I talk to educators and school leaders about rethinking the way we contextualise education the question of noise regularly rears its head. There is a generation of educators and parents who are under the impression that a good education (teacher-centred) can only occur inContinueContinue reading “Silence is golden? Perhaps it’s measure of good-old-fashioned teaching. But is it the measure of great learning?”
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Open space learning: Let’s talk about the elephant-in-the-(class)-room. The ABC of acoustics
I was standing in The Zone with an architect. The hubbub of learning engagement was all around. 180 students and six teachers call this space ‘home’ at Northern Beaches Christian School. In front of us a teacher was taking a large group through a step-by-step process on a particularly technical aspect of uploading their workContinueContinue reading “Open space learning: Let’s talk about the elephant-in-the-(class)-room. The ABC of acoustics”
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