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I’ve discussed before on this blog about WHY we need to be innovative and creative with our teaching techniques and our teaching resources.  Primarily, it is ensuring that the needs of the future are addressed through the education of today.  One such example is the emergence of KNOWMADS.  The Leapfrog Institutes at the University of Minnesota have discussed [...]

Ten thousand Victorian Government students who started the 2009 school year on Monday have begun a new three-year trial of individual netbook computers.  344 schools across the state are involved in the trial that will cost families just a dollar per week.  At the end of the trial students will have the opportunity to buy [...]

FutureLab is the British equivalent of DEECD’s IdeasLab.  They have been doing quality research on innovation for years.  In the video featured below, Dr Leila Walker, senior researcher at Futurelab, gives a presentation on Handheld Learning and its applications both now and in the future.
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I visited an extremely innovative school today. It features trasnformed teaching spaces and a broad range of subject areas. Independent thinking and inquiry are both encouraged. Its results are quite low in all the major data indicators that DEECD measures.
I also heard about another school (not far from the first) that has a very narrow [...]

As an inovative educator the question is often aksed “Why do we need to do things any different from when I was a kid?  I went through it and I turned out OK?”  The problem with this question is that it assumes teaching practice is changing in response to a change in our students.  The [...]

Welcome to the Innovation and Next Practice Blog for DEECD’s Southern Metropolitan Region. 
This is your one stop shop for all things innovative in teaching and learning.

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