Related Links
Here are some links that you may find useful to help you Think Beyond today…
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About Thinking…
http://www.imbes.org/journal.html
This site provides information about the latest neuroscience findings and makes links between the mind, brain and education
Daniel Goleman’s site provides latest information and thinking regarding emotional intelligence and neuroscience
Education, Futures & ICTs
http://blog.core-ed.net/derek/
Derek is one of the leading educational thinkers in NZ and internationally. His blog will keep you up to date with a variety of trends in education and information communication technologies.
Provides up to date thinking on the latest edcational trends, hotspots and dilemmas – check out their Map of Future Forces Affecting Education.
The Innovation Unit website provides examples of small scale innovations being trialled in English Schools, focussing on ‘Next Practice’.
An ongoing, co-constructed project looking at the future of secondary schooling and what needs to change.
http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/
This site contains a large number of educational podcasts. Great to download onto your ipod and listen while you exercise – keep up to date professionally at the same time! For example Powerful Ingredients for Digitally Interactive Learning (Workshop Part 1) a workshop on web 2.0 tools del.icio.us social bookmarks, Flickr photo sharing, VoiceThread digital storytelling, and videoconferencing. http://recap.ltd.uk/podcasting/professional/movingatspeed.php
http://www.ijohnpederson.com/
An edublog with a technological focus.
http://weblogg-ed.com/
Will Richardson’s blog provides some thought provoking ideas. It also has links to many other edublogs.
http://21stcenturylearning.typepad.com/
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s blog 21st Century Collaborative discusses the need to move forward in education and the place of technologies and virtual learning environments in this.
Leadership
This is a blog for school leaders, written by school leaders. It is a USA based blog but has some interesting links. In particular, the following link provides some of the best books to challenge your thinking on why education needs to change. Get reading.
http://www.leadertalk.org/2007/07/effective-princ.html
Facilitating Change
Joan Dalton and David Anderson provide a wealth of tools, ideas, examples and research to help educators develop strong learning communities. This is a site worth subscribing to.
