Schools Libraries Group presentation - 'Enquiring Minds - The Road To Learning

Enquiring Minds

@nickdennis #SLG2014

Nick Dennis Berkhamsted School

The Road To Learning

I’ve been to the crossroads and I’ve seen

the devil there.

Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies, 1996

Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will

https://www.flickr.com/photos/aigle_dore/6225529941/in/photostream/

…we can travel without maps

for a while

E P Thompson

Benefits• High portability &

accessibility

• Disperses information quickly

• Promotes community formation

• Promotes and enhances dialogue

Threats• Promotes distraction

• Reflects a loss of control over information

• Challenges traditional systems and ideals

• Requires new systems of organisation and makes old systems obsolete

The Printed Book

From Book to Text

The Codex

We may begin by asserting that, according to our view, the first requirement of every

lexicon is that it should contain !every word occurring in the literature of the

language it professes to illustrate

Schooling to Education

Vittorina da Feltra

Games based learning

MOOCs

MOOCs

HPQ as a way of stretching

students

From knowing to ‘Dare to Know’

Dr Nick Dennis !

Email: ndennis@berkhamstedschool.org Twitter: @nickdennis LinkedIn: uk.linkedin.com/in/nickdennis Blog: http://www.nickdennis.com/blog

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Notes for SLG download

p.7, 8 + 9 from Dr Bill Rankin, Director of Education, Apple

p.17 Expresso Book Machine video

p.23 from Mick Walters, Thinking Allowed

p.34 The Gorilla Experiment video

p.35 from Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore’s presentation at #TLAB14.