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Doublethink: The Creativity-Testing Conflict

Interesting reading on Education Week.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2012/07/18/36zhao_ep.h31.html

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Short film compettition about youth homelessness

In its second year, THE HOMELESSNESS SHORT FILM COMPETITION 2012 was launched today, a  national competition for secondary school students and part of the on‐going philanthropic initiative,&nb

Praise for BPEA on TED

Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education in around the world and found Big Picture as a model for the future.

TED Education

I'm sure most have you have seen at least one of the terrific videos put out by TED - "Riveting talks by remarkable people, free to the world". If not get there now and enjoy - www.ted.com

Media links for schools

We all know that great images and sound can add to your media productions.

Often schools get concerned about the copyright implications.

Scratch - interactive game and story tool from MIT

Scratch is a programming language that allows users to create, share and remix interactive stories and games. It's aimed at educators and builds strong mathematical and scientific concepts.

Josh from Te Kura NZ

Jen McCutcheon from Te Kura correspondence school shared this video portrait of Josh with us. Josh is pursuing his internship with NZ Fire Service.

THE OASIS documentary Schools Initiative

We are proud to support this initiative from our partners at The Caledonia Foundation.

Article from Edweek USA

Our colleague Peter Morgan pointed out the following article as a follow up from Linda Darling-Hammond's recent presenation.

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