Whether someone becomes a brilliant scientist, creative artist, or innovative mathematician, they all draw on the same fundamental learning powers: curiosity, persistence, imagination, attention, thinking, collaboration, and craftsmanship.
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Great to have Wellington Girls College and Sacred Heart College sign up to the Learner Threads Hub.
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These are excellent, and here’s two reasons why:
1) They are genuine maths games, not the gamification of maths, and so, like all games, elicit focus and persistence.
2) They lead learners into a space where they naturally exercise their thinking ‘muscle’.
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To think like a scientist requires attention.
Here’s one learning move learners can make to grow their scientific attention: Create detailed, focused observations through drawing. The act of drawing forces you to look carefully and notice details you might otherwise miss.
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I love this. It’s a wonderful way to help kids stretch their powers of attention.
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To think like a scientist requires imagination.
Here’s one learning move learners can make to grow their scientific imagination: Make the invisible visible and touchable, by building models or demonstrations that show how scientific processes work.
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Learner Threads is also where Bevan brings his knowledge and experience about education together in the form of products that support learners and learning.
Latest post on the blog, in which @bevanholloway.com explores the idea of insourcing and how it opens for learners "the opportunity to gain knowledge of who they are, find the threads that help them relate to the world, and who aren’t afraid to participate in it."
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To think like a mathematician requires curiosity.
Here’s one learning move learners can make to grow their mathematical curiosity: Use manipulatives, drawings, or physical objects to explore the problem.
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Nice learning move!
Inviting learners to use their imagination as they engage in poetry analysis is a great way to help them stitch together their ability to 'think like' a lover of literature.
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Mathematics isn’t just a grind through numerous exercises.
To think like a mathematician requires imagination.
Here’s one learning move kids can make to grow their mathematical imagination:
Visualise the problem in a different way - graphs, diagrams, or models.
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Learning stories are wonderful.
But writing them for every kid in your class is overwhelming.
Now, with the Learner Threads Hub 'Learning Reflections' app, students can take ownership of their own reflection and story creation.
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Like the idea of learning stories, but find the workload overwhelming?
'My Learning Reflections' guides learners through the process of writing their own learning stories, with the focus on dispositions so they can reflect on how, not just what, they learned.
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To nurture Curiosity and Thinking:
Present students with a single, provocative image, object,
or statement.
Ask, "What’s your first reaction to this?"
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NZ primary schools: here's a practical resource to help you continue to nurture dispositions, despite their absence from the new curriculum.
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Feeling the pressure of new curriculum mandates? Discover how to seamlessly weave the 'Magnificent Seven' learning dispositions into your lessons for deeper, more engaged learning.
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Guy is someone worth paying attention to.
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What a shame our curriculum changes worship the science of algorithmic learning in pursuit of knowledge above all else.
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Excellent
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The myopic emphasis on 'progress' and 'keeping up' paradoxically undermines the conditions required to think well in holistic terms.
What if we expanded our view beyond what the Ministry measures to include the inner world of the learner?
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We spend a lot of time talking about oracy.
But in a system increasingly geared for outputs, and tools that make producing them thoughtlessly easy, maybe the conversation we really need is about the rise of idiocy.
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Looking for a way to help your students grow their curiosity and attention muscles?
Check out this article.
PS: this is also play, of the intellectual kind.
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In amongst all the prescriptiveness of our new ‘knowledge-rich’ curriculum, the Minister is still asserting that dispositions are important. What’s missing in the curriculum is HOW teachers might go about eliciting them.
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AI reduces the scope education and robs kids of the chance to feel the richness some essential human experiences. It makes learning ‘ugly’.
A playful rant, of sorts.
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Currently writing short letters to my Year 9 class about what I noticed about them & their learning last term, & offering a little nudge about a disposition they could use to support their learning in the term to come, tying that to how it can help their academic growth.
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What do you want to learn about learning dispositions or learning stories?
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& that difference wouldn’t just be in what learners did — it would be in how they felt = the difference impacts on the inner world of the learner, which forces us to think about the moral dimension of what we do in schools.
What kind of impact is good?
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I like how this is a practical example of how dispositions naturally combine with academic learning.
There are strong links here to the positive learning dispositions attention, thinking, and curiosity.
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