Articles of Interest

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What 3 to 7 year olds need to learn
Nathan Mikaere-Wallis - RNZ Interview (26 minutes)

The Real Life of 5 years old at School
Starting school is one of the major events in a child’s early life. Each child is unique and responds to this transition in different ways... article by Sarah Whiting (Professional Learning Facilitator at CORE)

Powerful play: Continuity and inquiry for children starting school
article by Keryn Davis (CORE Ed)

The decline of play | Peter Gray TEDx
While US based, in this talk Dr. Peter Gray compellingly brings attention to the reality that over the past 60 years there has been a gradual but, overall dramatic decline in children's freedom to play with other children, without adult direction. Over this same period, there has been a gradual but overall dramatic increase in anxiety, depression, feelings of helplessness, suicide, and narcissism in children and adolescents. (16 minutes)

The silent tragedy affecting today’s children - Our children are in a devastating emotional state!
Occupational Therapist Victoria Prooday

Why Children Aren't Behaving, And What You Can Do About It
Mind Shift - by Cory Turner

Risk is essential to childhood – as are scrapes, grazes, falls and panic
Kate Blincoe

THE VALUE OF A 21ST CENTURY EDUCATION
Maxine Driscoll is the Founder and Visionary at Think Strategic & Think Leadership

​Innovative Learning Environments
Mark Osborne (2019)

How can innovative learning environments promote the diffusion of innovation? Teachers and Curriculum, 16(2) - Mark Osborne (2016)

Change Leadership and the transition to innovative learning environments (Vol. Transition, pp.157-162)
Mark Osborne (2018)

Innovative Learning Environments - Where's the Evidence?
Mark Osborne (2016)

Derek Wenmoth (CORE Education) describes this growing trend towards agency as having three important parts;

1. The student using their ‘initiative’ to act - being independent and self starting.
2. The student also having an ‘interdependent’ relationship on others - both their teachers and their peers.
3. The student having an awareness that their decisions impact on them, others and their peers.

The Surprising Truth About Learning in Schools | Will Richardson | We know how to help kids develop into powerful learners. Now, we just need to make that happen in schools.
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Published on November 21, 2015