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Everyone Round the Camp Fire – Learning Comes First in New School Design

Over the last couple of years I have begun to take a deeper interest in the spaces that we call school and those we don’t but which are still considered spaces for learning. Much of this focus has to do with our ongoing work at NoTosh with architectural firms and in support of schools seeking ...

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Khan Academy Is Not The Progressive Model You Are Looking For

There has been a great deal written about Khan Academy just recently and the concept of personalised instruction and how this is somehow revolutionary or some sort of game changer. But why is it engaging at all? Where does this type of instruction lead us? In my opinion the instructional maths videos posted on the ...

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10,000 Young People: Designing the Future

09.27.2011 · Posted in ITU, ITUWorld11, UN, conference, design, global

Ever wondered what 10,000 young people could do to solve some of the world’s greatest problems? That’s what NoTosh is wanting to find out this month as we help reinvent the world’s most important ICT event, ITU Telecom World 11. The October 24-27 event is the flagship meeting of the world’s telecoms industries, brought together ...

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Play With Fire

Gever Tulley is the founder of Tinkering School which allows children the time, space and real tools to make things. In 2009 he spoke about his school at TED. He has also a book out which intrigued me, titled “Fifty Dangerous Things (you should let your children do)” it sets out to be a “manifesto ...

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