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Articles on tools and methodologies, lesson plans and posters for those who want to get to grips with contemporary pedagogy and use it to help shape our future.
For teachers who want to make a commitment to including every child in their classroom, here is an in-depth look at the pedagogy of Inclusive Education and how you can apply it in your teaching. Inclusive Education tries to address the imbalances and exclusions of the past, ensuring that all…
Continue reading“Be a nuisance where it counts.” Those are the words of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, an American journalist, women’s rights activist and environmentalist. Having freedom of speech is not just an opportunity for self-expression. It is what makes it possible for us to participate in the decisions that will shape our…
Continue readingThe speed at which technology is now changing, and as a result the speed at which our knowledge of reality is changing, has never been this fast. It is impossible to know exactly how machine learning will impact on the way we live, learn, work and play. Will it erode…
Continue readingWhy are schools still focusing on memorising limited, out-of-date content, when what our children need to thrive are the skills to explore any content in any context? We need to be honest with ourselves and admit that completing the curriculum successfully and equipping learners with the skills they need to…
Continue readingFrom a MindBurst perspective, critical thinking is the ability to work things out for yourself.
Continue readingBelow is a sequence of three versions of a definition of critical thinking, each one more detailed than the previous. Click each image to download. Feel free to use and distribute the posters however you wish.
Continue readingRote memory is a skill in which computers far outperform any human. In the 21st century we cannot treat our learners as passive receptacles of knowledge, but we must treat them as independent knowledge producers, willing to try, fail and learn.
Continue readingProject-based learning is a buzzword we hear often and too often it is thought of as a free-for-all in which learners are left unguided in an undirected project. However, practising project-based learning properly requires rigour. It requires us to be explicit about the skills we want for our learners and…
Continue readingIn 2016 MindBurst worked together with teachers from Sacred Heart College to create 5 posters that captured key insights from the critical thinking skills training we had been doing with Grade 10s. The intent was to signal how critical thinking skills enable a learner to challenge and resist the status…
Continue readingHere are all the posters produced in collaboration with Grade 10s at Sacred Heart and Paper Snap. Click on an image to download. Please feel free to print them and experiment with them! Read the corresponding blog post here
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