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I’m doing an early, draft release of this blog post. I really want to share this now rather than wait for perfection. It’s me being creative 
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There are three YouTube videos posted this year which, after watching, is helping me redefine what education should be, not just what it should not be.
- A Vision of Students Today: “If students learn what they do, what are they learning sitting here [silently in straight rows facing a speaker at the front of the room?]“
- Ken Robinson on creativity: “Creativity is important as literacy and we should treat it with the same status. … If you’re not prepared to be wrong, you will never come up with anything original… We are educating people out of their creative capacities.”
- Jeff Hawkins on brain theory: “We have an intuitive, strongly held but incorrect assumption that is preventing us from seing the answer: … that intelligence is defined by behavior”.
So after watching Jeff Hawkins, let me ask you: what are the intuitive strongly held beliefs about intelligence & what education should be that is keeping us from making a better education system?
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The Green Party of Canada released today its Vision Green. The policy document lays out the plan for the kind of Canada we want in 2020 and how we get to that point. It is a breath of fresh air and provides visionary leadership, not for the next four year, but for the next forty years. Here are some of the solutions addressing the various issues it covers:
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Un commiqué de presse de la Fédération canadienne des étudiantes et étudiants-Ontario note:
“Pour un grand nombre d’étudiantes et d’étudiants, les résultats de l’élection d’aujourd’hui ont été éclipsés par l’intérêt dans la défaite potentielle du nouveau système électoral à représentation proportionnelle mixte proposé lors du référendum pan-provincial. “Un sondage récent a démontré que 67 pour cent des électrices et électeurs de moins de 35 ans appuyaient le nouveau système électoral, a dit Hassum. Les jeunes électrices et électeurs espèrent toujours un résultat positif dans le référendum sur la réforme électorale. Les étudiantes et étudiants croient que le système électoral RPM amènera une plus grande équité et diversité ainsi qu’une représentation proportionnelle adéquate au sein de la législature.”
Two students at Central Kings Rural High School fought back against bullying recently, unleashing a sea of pink after a new student was harassed and threatened when he showed up wearing a pink shirt.
– http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/858884.html
The story … has swept across North America and made its way to Europe.
– http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/859436.html