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Enlightenment! Thanks To The CBI.

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A Crack Where The Light Gets In? To be fair to the Confederation of British Industry, which is not necessarily an organisation concerned with social justice and enlightened pedagogy, this isn’t the first time the CBI has said in effect … Continue reading

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The Frying Pan, the Fire, the Furnace and Finland

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Here’s an interesting take on leadership, management and high performance teams: “You have to enjoy your work and be content. Satisfied. You have to have an atmosphere in which it is pleasant to work. But you can only do it … Continue reading

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Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

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Two months ago we wrote about Sir Ken Robinson’s latest book – The Element – How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything. http://3diassociates.wordpress.com/2012/03/11/and-heres-to-you-mr-robinson/ Today we’re returning to this book, starting with a passage from page 76 that connects with our recent … Continue reading

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Meeting Needs, Personal Intelligence and Equal Opportunities

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I heard someone say to someone else recently, “Don’t neglect your own needs”, which prompted the thought that not only do many people not know or understand their own needs, they sometimes don’t seem to know or accept that everyone … Continue reading

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Music: Passing It On, and Feeling the Noize

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If you haven’t been watching Simon Amstel’s sublime ‘Grandma’s House’ on TV recently then we strongly suggest you try to catch up with it on the BBC iPlayer. I remember quite clearly that one of the reasons I enjoyed visiting … Continue reading

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Truth Seekers, Music Makers; Freeing the Spirit and Rocking the World

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A few years back a representative of a well known London orchestra approached my school and asked whether some of his musicians might work with our children in order to help the professionals to loosen up, feel the music, and … Continue reading

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Musical Education at Risk, and Developing Musical Intelligence

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Let’s pause for a moment and think about what the world would be like if every one of us could play a musical instrument – if we could come home at the end of a busy day and relax with … Continue reading

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Digital Literacy and a Revolution in the Classroom – Part Two

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Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman of Google, is surely a man who ought to know about the digital world. This Sunday he wrote the following article for the Observer, by way of responding to the Observer’s campaign to bring ‘coding’ … Continue reading

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What’s wrong with education?

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The following is an extract from yesterday’s Guardian Education: What’s wrong with education? Teachers reveal all As the teaching union conference season gets under way, we ask what the everyday worries are in schools today. .  

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Explaining Finland’s Miracle: Finland’s School Success – Part Three

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3Di is endebted to Meredyth Byrd and her education blog ‘Engaging Ideas‘ for drawing our attention to this fascinating article in The Atlantic, written by Anu Partanen, a Finnish Journalist based in New York City: What Americans Keep Ignoring About … Continue reading

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