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Workshop and Lesson Ideas

We have collected here our writing about workshops we have done successfully in the past in the hope that the ideas behind the workshops may be of use in your classroom or business. Feel free to pick and choose, use a workshop exactly as we did, or turn it into something completely different. We would love to hear about your adventures in the comments sections for each workshop. Happy learning!

Blog Post, Fourth Industrial Revolution, Project-based Learning/Integrated Studies, Workshop and Lesson Ideas

Sustainable Building Workshops with St. Benedict’s

January 17, 2020

In 2018 we had the great pleasure of working with the dynamic Delia Kench and the staff of St Benedict’s on a three-day workshop that aimed at encouraging learners to think deeply, plan strategically and explore the skills associated with design – engaging some of the transferable skills valued in…

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Blog Post, Creativity/Innovation, Workshop and Lesson Ideas

Throwing the Bones: superstition or information technology?

January 15, 2020

MindBurst has been exploring a wealth of knowledge resources from Africa that have been overlooked by our curricula. Colonial ideas have reduced many valuable practices like African divination systems to primitive superstition. This is a product of arrogance and ignorance combined. We asked ourselves: What if we reconsidered ‘throwing the…

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