ChangeThinking with SmithMartin

Tag: learning

International Day of Happiness

Pursuit of happiness is on the global development agenda, but not enough is being done to address learner well-being. UNESCO’s ‘Happy Schools’ framework (pdf) addresses the disparity. The Global Partnership for Education has…

A Social Business Christmas

Embed from Getty Images Image: Christmas learning from Barcelona Preparing for Christmas we realised that although we have a number of active and complex projects moving ahead into 2017, including more international book…

A Kellet thank you…

Following our recent delivery of Book Fest celebrations at The Kellet School in Hong Kong, the school have just published a short film thanking contributors to the Annual Fund activities across the academic…

Saying it cannot be done…

I was given a book mark yesterday by one of my colleagues. It carried the following inscription. Those who say it cannot be done… Should not interrupt the person doing it.   (Ancient…

The web and education – how we think about information

Michael Wesch of Kansas State University produces a continuous stream of films and concept refreshing ideas about information, education and the cultural power of the web. The short film below offers the viewer…

A surfeit of information?

Below is a short film of a recent TED programme talk by a teacher – Diana Laufenberg. It has a number of different messages. A mapping of the transition from a knowledge poor…

Forest Schools

This really captured our imagination at at a time when schools are about to go through further changes. Could be just the opportunity to see if a Forest School could be the way…