With two weeks’ well-earned holiday just around the corner, I thought it might be useful to share a couple of  online presentations that I was sent recently and personally found very inspirational and thought-provoking. They both relate to how we educate students in the 21st Century.

The first is an interview with Greg Whitby, nominated by The Bulletin Magazine as “Australia’s smartest, most innovative and creative person working in education today“. That is a very tall order indeed, and he was recently interviewed on ABC radio’s ‘The Conversation hour” to talk about the work he has done to earn this title.

To listen to the audio recording of the one hour interview with Greg, you can play it directly from the website on your computer by clicking on one of the links under the photo of Greg on the right of ‘The Conversation hour web page (it may take a few moments to download to your computer). Alternatively, do a right-click on the MP3 link and choose ‘Save target as’ from the menu and download a copy of the file to your portable MP3 player (it is around 11 MB) Then you can listen to the interview while you stroll along the beach … enjoy a refreshing drink … sit in the shade … whatever … I will think of you!

 The other presentation is a video on YouTube that shows Ken Robinson addressing the question “Do schools kill creativity?” It is entertaining and thought provoking … well worth the 20 minute time investment!

Enjoy a relaxing holiday; I look forward to working further with you all in term 3