About 3D Eye
Gary Foskett and Clare Blackhall are educationalists, writers and consultants. We work with schools and other organisations who share our vision of how schools, businesses, etc should work in the 21st Century. We also run courses and contribute to conferences - speaking about our three dimensional model of intelligences and how schools, colleges and universities can develop the full potential of all their staff and students. We also offer consultancy for businesses and public sector organisations to support staff training and organisational change and development. For more detailed information read our blog at https://3diassociates.wordpress.com/ or see our website at www.3diassociates.com.
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It’s been reported that Gavin Williamson told a private Tory 1922 Committee meeting he plans to make children face the front of the classroom since this is a “good traditional teaching method” and a “commonsense approach to teaching”. Clearly it’s … Continue reading →
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Tagged 1922 Committee, Charles Dickens, collaboration, collaborative learning, Conservative Education policy, creativity, Dr Mary Bousted, Gavin Gradgrind, Gavin Williamson, Gradgrind, Gradgrind Gavin, Hard Times, Hard Times Charles Dickens, high stakes exams, knowledge-based learning, Michael Gove, National Education Union, NEU, Post Covid-19 education, teaching in rows, traditional education
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Fair play to whoever is producing or editing the BBC’s “Rethink” series on BBC radio, and managed to insert an item on education into the Radio 4 Today programme this week. This is a series that asks what changes we … Continue reading →
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Tagged 3Di Associates model of intelligences, 3Di multiple intelligences, Andreas Schleicher, BBC Rethink, Caleb Femi, CBI and education, CBI First Steps, Daisy Christodoulou, Gradgrind, Gradgrindism, Hard Times, life skills, multiple intelligences in school, OECD PISA, personalised learning, Rethinking Education, University Challenge
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Back in 2013 we wrote the following: https://3diassociates.wordpress.com/2013/02/01/rearranging-the-deckchairs/ Rearranging the Deckchairs “You didn’t have to be an absolute genius back in 1912 [the year of the Titanic’s one and only voyage] to imagine that aircraft would become bigger, faster, more … Continue reading →
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Tagged 21st Century Education, 21st Century learners, 3Di Associates: Rearranging the Deckchairs, CBI, CBI and education, Confederation of British Industry, Education Paradigms, Elite Schools, Finnish education, Finnish Education system, Gavin Williamson, OECD PISA, Passive learning, Post covid Education, universities
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Imagine the scene. Young people already disengaged from education, living in inadequate and/or impoverished housing – bereft of personal computers and home-learning equipment – are told to attend school during the summer holidays to “catch up”. As they trudge their … Continue reading →
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Tagged Booster classes, Catch up, Catch up lessons, Fiona Millar, Learning during Covid, Post covid Education, Purpose of Education, Return to schools post covid, Schooling versus educationn, Schools opening, social and emotional learning, Values and Purpose of Education
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The government has announced that schools don’t have to open fully until September. They’ve miraculously worked out that social distancing is impossible in the majority of schools – something the profession and teaching unions had told them months ago. Not … Continue reading →
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Tagged Anne Longfield, Covid-19 education, Education experts, Gavin Williamson, National Education Union, Politicians meddling with education, Post covid Education, Professionalism in teaching, schools post covid, Schools return, Schools start back in September, Secretary of State for Education
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The National Education Union has announced its own “Five Tests” that need to be passed before educational establishments are re-opened – mirroring the health secretary’s tests for the end of this lockdown. https://neu.org.uk/neu-five-tests-government-schools-can-re-open They are: Reduced numbers of Covid-19 cases … Continue reading →
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Tagged 3Di Associates, child development, Dr Mary Bousted, Education Paradigms, high-stake exams, Kevin Courtney, Mary Bousted, National Education Union, NEU, NEU Five Tests, NEU Five Tests petition, New Education Paradigm, New Normal, paradigm shifts, Post covid Education, Post Covid-19 education, PSHE, PSHE Education, wellbeing
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It shouldn’t take a pandemic for us to reconsider the purpose of education. It didn’t take a pandemic for many of us to reconsider the purpose of education. Those of us who’ve been unhappy and sometimes apoplectic about the direction … Continue reading →
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Tagged 3Di Associates, 3Di Associates model of intelligences, Abolish GCSEs, Abolish SATs, Albert Einstein, Covid-19, Covid-19 education, Finnish Education system, Guardian Education, high stakes exams, Niamh Sweeney, Ofsted, Paulo Freire, Reinventing education, Singapore Education, Sir Ken Robinson, Tony Little
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Homeschooling or home educating? There’s a few messages doing the rounds on social media regarding “home educating”. Another one says, Contrast this with the comments of a headteacher on Radio 4’s Today programme this morning. We’re not going to name … Continue reading →
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Tagged 3Di, 3Di multiple intelligences, Coronavirus, Covid-19, Covid-19 education, home education, home schooling, Learning at home, Life Lessons, Lifeskills, making memories, PSHE, Schools closed, standards agenda
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Entering these roaring twenties the state of our health and wellbeing must be of the utmost importance to one and all. Collectively, we need to promote and value our wellbeing – particularly in our schools and our communities where age … Continue reading →
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Tagged 2020, 2020 vision, 3Di Associates, 3Di Associates and Wellbeing, A creative curriculum, Active Citizenship, creative education, creativity in schools, destructive emotions, gratitude, Guardian's wellbeing, helping others, Kate Corbett-Winder, managing destructive emotions, Nell Frizzell, New decade, outdoor play, the Guardian
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Today is the inaugural RSE Day. For many years we’ve been writing about the importance of Relationships and Sex Education, and how sadly devalued it has been. Times are changing and thankfully it has received its deserved statutory status. Here’s … Continue reading →
