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**KEYNOTE SPEAKER** - Dr. Stuart Middleton
media type="custom" key="5477473" In his keynote address from the 2010 Learning@school conference, Dr Stuart Middleton outlines what is known about disengagement and the reasons for this phenomenon, and outlines potential responses to it.

The End of Education As We Know It?
Dan Brown argues that information has been liberated, and as a result, is now free for all to acquire. In the information revolution every enterprise and institution has had to reinvent itself, but what has education successfully and consistently accomplished? He urges, "Institutional education needs to do more than adopt a few new tools." Teaching facts is not adequately preparing students for the real world. He calls for an education that empowers students to be creative and develop new ideas to change the world for the better. He insists that if education does not reinvent itself for today's society, the world will not need it anymore. media type="youtube" key="-P2PGGeTOA4" height="385" width="640"

Teaching Children is Not Like Making Motor Cars
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The Future of the Internet.
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You Can't Be My Teacher!
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**When I Become A Teacher...**
Useful video to stimulate teacher discussion about the need to keep growing new skills and values. media type="youtube" key="590PNSh6g_4" height="385" width="480" **Sir Ken Robinson on Standardised Testing.** media type="youtube" key="2ko-m6K2dz0" height="385" width="640" **The Lost Generation - watch it all!** media type="youtube" key="hKzxV0QLhRo" height="385" width="480"

The Race to Nowhere.
As we are “moved’ into a world where the focus on ’standards’ is deemed more important than the focus on children and their learning, this movie trailer from the USA is a warning for us all. media type="youtube" key="--zDyLGQYGk" height="385" width="640"

21st Century Education
New Brunswick, Canada "Congratulations to the New Brunswick Department of Education. They are getting the message. More importantly they are doing something about it. Positive things. When I see things like this happening it renews my energy to continue this work. This video is worth looking at. I challenge you to get a cup of coffee and watch this five minute video. More importantly, I ask you this question. What are you going to do right now, today, to help prepare your students for their future and not our past?" [| Committed Sardine blog] media type="youtube" key="EjJg9NfTXos" height="385" width="480"

I teach, therefore you learn... or do you?
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The Future Of Work
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Michael Jordan Reflects on Failure.
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What Teachers Make, by Taylor Mali.
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Social Media Revolution
A "Shift Happens" type video that provides a thought provoking look at the role of social media on our world. media type="youtube" key="lFZ0z5Fm-Ng" height="385" width="640"

Anti-Creativity Checklist
To avoid killing the potential of the New Zealand Curriculum, we need to avoid all 14 points in this tongue in cheek video! media type="youtube" key="AsyAtkjYcEk" height="385" width="640"

Failure Is An Option
"Failure is not only an option, it is inevitable. And we are better for it. When we sell life as an exercise in mistake avoidance or perfection, we we end up lying to children who grow up to become adults who live their lives in fear of being wrong. But if we are never prepared to be wrong - to make a mistake - to fail - then we will never create anything new. When we say that failure is not an option, many kids really hear us saying that failure is something that should never happen - but then it does, and they are left debilitated and helpless. So they quit. No one is successful all the time. Successful people see mistakes and failure not as something that should have never happened but as information to be used in the pursuit of life long learning" [|Joe Bower] media type="youtube" key="RmTxr7OsPj0" height="385" width="640"

Two Questions That Can Change Your Life
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Think Different
Change the world! media type="youtube" key="USn5t5nQWU8" height="385" width="480"

Has education changed since the Industrial Revolution?
Educator and author Sir Ken Robinson discusses how education has changed little from the Industrial Revolution. media type="youtube" key="Zw_7_r-D5Kk" height="385" width="640"

Ubitours
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The future ...
[|Look at this prototype screen] - how do you think this will influence classrooms? [|What about this?] [|What is a "Vook"?] [|What is a 'Knol"?] [|The 2020 Forecast - the future of learning?] [|The Next Generation May Be Chipped]

What Adults Can Learn From Kids...
Child prodigy Adora Svitak says the world needs "childish" thinking: bold ideas, wild creativity and especially optimism. Kids' big dreams deserve high expectations, she says, starting with grownups' willingness to learn from children as much as to teach. Watch this TED talk! media type="custom" key="6297529"

Web 3.0 Semantic Web
Here is a fascinating, entertaining and informative video outlining what the Semantic Web might be, and why it is important. media type="custom" key="6308191" [|Web 3.0 Concepts Explained in Plain English]

How the Internet Enables Intimacy
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Infowhelm & Information Fluency
This is a brilliant resource that sets perfectly the scene for 21st century learning, what we are facing right now and where we are heading. What a stunning clip. media type="youtube" key="7ECAVxbfsfc" height="385" width="640"

Ten Technologies Your Children Will Find Obsolete
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The Emerging Networked School Environment
Derek Wenmoth of Core Educations has been spending quite a bit of time working on an introductory section to a handbook that will be published shortly for New Zealand schools that are already or are interested in becoming a part of a Learning Community Online on the Virtual Learning Network. Derek is attempting to summarize the changes we’re experiencing in moving from traditional teaching and learning environments towards the concept of the networked school in a virtual environment. If you think that schooling as we know it will continue into the future, then you'd better read this! media type="custom" key="6372355"

Famous Failures
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