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#46 with Prof. Stephen Heppell on Optimum Learning Environments
Category: Education
Duration: 00:44:45
Publish Date: 2017-01-01 13:52:49
Description:

Prof. Stephen Heppell is speaking at Bett 2017. You can register here. 

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Content:

This week’s podcast is with the remarkable Stephen Heppell, teacher, professor, learning and learning technology specialist and sailor extraordinaire. 

In this episode, we talk about:

  1. Why it’s important to let your two year old show off their fish fingers at the dinner table
  2. The early days of learning and technology
  3. What happens if we neglect the optimum conditions for teaching and learning
  4. Why we should embrace stage not age
  5. Stephen’s makerspace project for Syrian refugees
  6. Challenging the comfort zones of leaders

 Sample Quotes: 

‘‘I could have taken the internet home on a memory stick.’

‘The industrialisation moments of education? Well, now that’s back.’

‘Let the kids go as fast as they can.’

On Politicians: 

Politicians: 'I don’t think i’ve ever detected malice. they’ve always tried to do the right thing.’ Real change comes from children and parents communities and parents'

'We know the future is going to be different we don't necessarily know what it is going to be

 

References:

 

https://twitter.com/stephenheppell

maker4maker.net

http://rubble.heppell.net/learnometer/

http://www.hightechhigh.org/

http://www.school21.org.uk/

http://ukedchat.com/

https://twitter.com/michaelgove

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