June 28

The SAN Script – Tuesday, June 28

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Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.

Bryan Procter

Here is the show from yesterday – please feel free to show this to your kids if you want – we will not be publically posting this.

 

St. Anthony Today

SK’s visiting Gr. 1 !

Reports going home at the end of the day

Lifelong Learning and the Maker Movement

© Flickr/Maker Festival Toronto

23.06.2016

(by UNESCO Bangkok, ICT in Education)

Which would have advanced the most at the end of a month — the boy who had made his own jackknife from the ore which he had dug and smelted, reading as much as would be necessary for this — or the boy who had attended the lectures on metallurgy at the Institute…” (excerpt from Walden, 1854)

The maker movement has received a startling limelight in education in the recent years. To some, it has come across as yet “another” latest hype in education, but arguments for education to enable youth to make and develop basic necessities of life have been made as early as the 19th century by an influential author, no other than Henry David Thoreau. The recent sudden attention to this already established and fundamental principle is partly owing to the prevailing failures of the current school systems that have not been able to adequately prepare graduates with the relevant skills in order to keep up with the changing world of work. Today’s technological advancements have also acted as an essential benefactor to the maker movement, helping to “solve unsolvable problems”, while turning the process of learning into a more tangible and relevant foundation for the future reality (please see “The Maker Movement in Education: A New Global Transformation” by Dr. Paul Kim to learn principles for creating a maker space for education). 

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Posted June 28, 2016 by mcguirp in category SAN Today

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