“Educating Leonardos” - multidisciplinary education
Helen speaks of the need for more creative thinkers, more innovators, and the need for schools/teachers to impart and encourage the joy of learning. She emphasises the new roles for teachers as facilitators, and the need to be inventive with the curriculum.
As far as attitudes are concerned, Helen speaks of the “open source attitude” - a positive attitude towards learning, developing, inventing, creating, sharing, hacking and innovating. A way to do this she asserts is cross-discipline or multi-disciplinary connections - for example bio-computing, and the development of organic machines. Helen advocates a managed approach to this, and spent some time talking about the future of education and the campus of the future.
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4 October 2007 at 3:48 pm
Sharon Riley
I found the information of this keynote was nothing new really, but presented in such a way that made you first, sit up and listen and second, revisit with the intention of renewing teaching practices. Very nice and some what refreshing. Cheers
5 October 2007 at 12:04 am
Jedd Bartlett
Yes - and I guess that as Helen is not immersed in the teaching and learning world as we are, we are hearing familiar messages from a different perspective. Check out the links on the mindmap in her presenter notes - lots of interesting reading.