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Oh a sensible response to this debacle at last. Learning does not have to take place at school and be knowledge based.
Pasi Sahlberg@pasi_sahlberg
@TheEconomist Nonsense. Learning doesn't stop. These estimates are a poor reason to argue for any longterm harm. Kids can learn important things for life through music, play and creating things for themselves and others. Learning never stops.
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We wrote this a month ago: ”Schools are moving online, but not all children start out digitally equal” theconversation.com/schools-are-mo… via @ConversationEDU
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@MandyLCross 👏🏻Excellent super funny thread!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
We Are Teachers@WeAreTeachers
Can one GIF sum up our lives right now?
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Keyworker (noun), definition: A person whose work is overlooked and undervalued, until the shit hits the fan.
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@AproposKnow @Borto74 Finland doesn’t have a private schooling system. Education there is public only.
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Part 1: Some observations from my trip to a Finnish school today - 1 teacher and two assistants per classroom.
- 4 play breaks per day
- Class sizes ranged from 13-17
- No school uniforms
- School provides lunch for all students and many Students using text books
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Goosebumps from the power of the first Year 6 Exhibition session today! Stunning opening performance from the students and a brilliant first run through of their inquiries. Well done to all involved! @CGGSJunior
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It’s actually pretty simple. We need to offer a “rich and varied diet of stories and conversations.” Morris Gleitzman 2018 @PETAAConnect @MorrisGleitzman @Ozlaureate
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Listening to the 2018 Australian Children’s Laureate tell personal childhood stories about Vaseline, jelly babies and Enid Blyton... As entertaining in person as he is through his writing. @PETAAConnect @MorrisGleitzman
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Deconstructing princesses
George Monbiot@GeorgeMonbiot
This @cartoonkate is a bona fide genius. Last month I read her brilliant graphic novel Red Rosa. This month I read her new children's book - ripping up sexist fairy tales, with lots of laughs - to my daughter. We both loved it: cartoonkate.co.uk/dont-call-me-p…
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‘Taking back our right to participate in the (education) agenda’ Robyn Ewing @PETAAConnect
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Listening to Professor Robyn Ewing AM at UC on the transformational potential of arts-based education and the benefits of writing as an art form.
‘A writer must ache with caring’ (Mem Fox) @PETAAConnect
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Imagine how much more advanced society would be today if women, who comprise half the world’s brain power, were socially & intellectually enfranchised from the beginning of civilization.
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Misty Adoniou @PETAAConnect ‘Writing the Future’. Where has the magic gone? Writing is more than talk on paper...once you have your talk on paper you have the power to move it,shape it,manipulate the words and sentences to move & change people’s hearts and mind. #tesoloz #engchat
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#iPadToolbox debriefing is tough but we (app) smashed it @Opera House Bar
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