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What Can We Learn From a School Where Teachers Don’t Teach and Children Choose Why, What, How, When…
What Can We Learn From a School Where Teachers Don’t Teach and Children Choose Why, What, How, When…
This week Independent Thinking founder Ian Gilbert had the opportunity to visit a very interesting school within a school in the…
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Feb 3, 2018
It’s Not About You — Philosopher Kings, Hero Heads and the Cult of Leadership
It’s Not About You — Philosopher Kings, Hero Heads and the Cult of Leadership
My engagement with the education literature over the past 20 years has tended to range quite widely. I like to make links, to think about…
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Jan 31, 2018
Seventeen questions from the 2014 Hong Kong ‘Umbrella Revolution’ for teachers everywhere
Seventeen questions from the 2014 Hong Kong ‘Umbrella Revolution’ for teachers everywhere
When Ian Gilbert, Independent Thinking’s Founder, was based in Hong Kong and he spent time at the ‘Umbrella Revolution’ barricades.
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Jan 28, 2018
On Rigour
Here are seven great questions from educational rigo(u)r ‘guru’ Tony Wagner to check whether your lessons are rigorous or not.
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Jan 28, 2018
How the Brian (sic) Works
How the Brian (sic) Works
Last weekend we held one of our Thinking Saturdays where an open invitation is put out to our Associates to get together to explore certain…
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Jan 27, 2018
Zero-Waste Schools — It Can Be Done
Zero-Waste Schools — It Can Be Done
Governments around the world are increasingly fixated simply on data in schools. Meanwhile, really important things like the damage we are…
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Jan 27, 2018
The Negligent Treatment of Medical Anecdote
The Negligent Treatment of Medical Anecdote
Good teachers are being publicly derided by the self-elected ‘pedagogy police’ for talking about ‘what works for me’, even if the canon of…
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Jan 27, 2018
It’s Just Nuts On a Plate
It’s Just Nuts On a Plate
I think I’ve read more education research in the last few years than at any point in my teaching career. Some of it has made me think…
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Jan 27, 2018
That B-Boy Strategy In Full
That B-Boy Strategy In Full
A short extract from Independent Thinking’s founder Ian Gilbert’s best-selling book Why Do I Need a Teacher When I’ve Got Google that…
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Jan 27, 2018
Dung Beetles and Monday Mornings
Dung Beetles and Monday Mornings
NB Before you read this blog, open up the BBC news headlines website in another tab. We’ll need it later.
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Jan 27, 2018
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