Module 4
10 Courses
Education for All: Disability, Diversity and Inclusion Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Cape Town Started: 13/04/2018 Finished: 27/04/2018 The Right to Education: Breaking Down the Barriers Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Glasgow Started: 27/04/2018 Finished: 27/04/2018 Blended Learning: Personalizing Education for Students Platform: Coursera Institution: Institute & Relay Graduate School of Education Started: 22/02/2019 Finished: 08/03/2019 What is Character? Virtue and Ethics in Education Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Birmingham Started: 30/06/2016 Finished: 30/06/2016 Gamification of Learning Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 25/11/2017 Finished: 01/12/2017 Gamification for Interactive Learning Platform: LinkedIn Institution: LinkedIn Learning Started: 13/12/2017 Finished: 19/12/2017 Innovation: The Key to Success Platform: FutureLearn Institution: University of Leeds Started: 18/09/2014 Finished: 29/09/2014 e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Started: 18/07/2017 Finished: 02/08/2017 E-Learning and Digital Cultures Platform: Coursera Institution: University of Glasgow Started: 07/11/2013 Finished: 09/12/2013 Leading Ambitious Teaching and Learning Platform: edX Institution: University of Michigan Started: 04/03/2019 Finished: 08/03/2019
2 Books
Actionable Gamification: Beyond Points, Badges, and Leaderboards Author: Yu-kai Chou Publisher: Yu-kai Chou (first published April 16th 2015) Published: 2017 Started: 03/08/2018 Finished: 03/08/2018 Beyond the Hole in the Wall: Discover the Power of Self-Organized Learning Author: Sugata Mitra & Nicholas Negroponte (Foreword) Publisher: TED Books Published: 2012 Started: 17/01/2019 Finished: 17/01/2019
“We can look at Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Our children need to be fed, and they need to be loved, and they need to feel safe, and they need to feel that the world is wonderful. They need to be surrounded by people that see the wonder in the world around them. If their basic needs are met, and they are in a condition in a comfortable community of learners where the teachers and the students there, they share the emotional connection to knowledge, and they’re given space in their learning to envision possibilities in different directions than their teacher’s initially imagined they would.”
Gillian Judson, Education that inspires is what we’re after, robhopkins.net, 26/02/2018
Formal education should not shut people down, it should open them up. Education systems should be inspiring young people to dream big and then empowering those dreamers with the skills to make the world a better place.
I never wanted to be a teacher. Seeing how downtrodden most of my schoolteachers were always made me think a person must be crazy to want to be a teacher! I can also remember a school assembly when the most miserable of the deputy heads told us to stop dreaming, get real and accept the fact that we wouldn’t ever amount to much in life.
An unintelligent and uninspired education system has a knock-on effect… it feeds into the status quo and you end up having an unintelligent and uninspired society, and we all end up suffering as a result.
This is the module where I started to explore all the wide and varied ways in which the schooling system can transform students into innovative learners with brave voices, bold ideas and imaginations that will not stop.