Sustainable Globalisation
Concentration 3
Education Innovation
“Imagine a school class with children fully engaged and immersed in working together to solve real-world issues. They are self-driven, collaborative, coming up with new ideas and throwing out the ones that don’t work. They think creatively and apply this across their entire life.“
Sarah Weir, Essential education: future jobs must be taught with tech, raconteur.net, 04/09/2018
Overview
Module 1 – Learning How To Learn – 6 Courses
Module 2 – Learning How To Teach – 15 Courses
Module 3 – Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) – 7 Courses
Module 4 – EdTech – 6 Courses
Module 5 – Makerspaces for Creative Learning – 6 Courses
Module 6 – What Future for Education – 7 Courses
Module 7 – Learning as a Lifestyle – 5 Courses
Diplomas – 19 Certificates
Blog Posts
Final Project – Building My Own Education
I built this concentration to immerse myself in the practices of learning and teaching so I could enrich the constuction of my MTA Portfolio and cultivate an open-minded outlook on the thriving experiences education can become…
“To be a critical thinker starts with resisting the urge to be a pleaser. Students are being taught an intellectual form of obedience so that, by the time they reach university, their idea of debate is often little more than second-guessing the instructor. When their answer is the same as mine, they believe they’re right – and they stop thinking just when they need to start.“
Margaret Heffernan, Wilful Blindness: Why We Ignore the Obvious at our Peril, 2012:309-10