I really liked this short video clip from John Seely Brown (courtesy Steve Wheeler via Twitter @timbuckteeth John Seely-Brown: Tinkering as a mode of knowledge production http://bit.ly/oJl8er )
It obviously has applications for all kinds of education but it started me (yet again, sorry) thinking about teachers' professional development. Next year, at my school, we will be employing four strands for the in-house programme (effective leadership, effective classrooms, innovation and technology, career development) but they will be arranged so that anyone who wants to mainly follow one strand but dip into others will still be able to. Each strand will be led by two or three leading practitioners and everyone involved will be eligible for accreditation. We will be using our VLE to record group developments.
So how does this link with John Seely Brown's talk? I was really struck by the notion of public critique. In my last post I mentioned how lucky I am to be able to observe many teachers in many areas of the curriculum and to share these ideas. Surely, we can take this a step further by sharing our critiques on the VLE so that, having developed trust within a small group, we can begin to share these ideas together.
I would hope that the trust will build to be whole school and then phew! who knows?
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