Self-assessment is the first, essential step that people with an interest in the success and well-being of a school take when they seek to integrate continuous improvement into its culture. What that means in practice is that the school’s community sees consistent excellence in its activities as a foundation that supports progress along a clear pathway …
Educational leadership for the 21st Century demands that anyone with an interest in improving or transforming schools thinks differently about how schools operate. A school is a live operating system, more akin to a living organism than a mechanical model. Each part is critical to the health of the system, and a problem in any …
We often share examples of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an exponential and disruptive technology that has huge implications for how we work, live and learn. But what exactly does AI do, how does it work, and how does it help? And are robots really taking away people’s jobs?
We’ve shared cool and interesting snippets before, and we’ll continue to do so as we continue our earnest quest to find the awesomeness in this world and spark curiosity in ourselves and others. As we’re researching articles for Indigo Schools, anything that doesn’t fit our usual categories goes into our ‘cool and interesting’ file, and posts like this one are the result.
Today’s article looks at learning, specifically learning systems, how changing work affects learning and the importance of understanding thought processes such as unintended consequences and biases – we’ve also included the usual series of questions to provoke thought and discussion in classrooms and around dinner tables.
Today’s articles resources, types of learning, student disengagement, play-based learning, teachers surveys and more, and our hope is that they serve as a conversation starter in schools.
This week we’re starting with the article – ‘Gradually, Then Suddenly’, before looking at the roles trust and collaboration play in organisations and finishing with a quick look at future skills.
These articles about the future of education and learning have caught our eye recently. We’ve grouped the articles below into a couple of different categories, and each speaks to what teachers might need to be informed about as we head into an uncertain future.
The articles in each category provide a quick overview of some of the trends that we are seeing in the transport sector, and allow teachers and students to gain an insight into the areas in which we will likely see innovation, deployment and opportunity over the coming decade.
There have always been varying versions of events and perspectives about the world and how it works. However the problem now is that while these various perspectives have always existed, they were more often than not rooted in an agreed and universal truth or basis in fact.
