Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs | Video on TED.com

It's all about initiative

Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs Video on TED.com

Finland vs The Slums; Who will we look to for inspiration in the field of education?

Here is another TED.com video that you have to see on how Charles Leadbeater went looking for radical new forms of education -- and found them in the slums of Rio and Kibera, where some of the world's poorest kids are finding transformative new ways to learn. And this informal, disruptive new kind of school, he says, is what all schools need to become.

http://www.ted.com/talks/charles_leadbeater_on_education.html

You can also catch it on my Vod Pod on the right hand column.

If you want to read more about the subject matter he covers you can find a copy of the report he bases his presentation on, on his website at

http://www.charlesleadbeater.net/home.aspx

I'm currently reading through it at the moment and gleaning for all the possible schools I want to visit on W.T.S.R.E. (World Tour of Sites of Radical Education).

I'll do another blog on that when I'm done.

Talk to ya later mates.

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com

Pink talks about intrinsic motivation and autonomy as the new ways to motivate employees.
The same goes for students; Reed Larson, Professor of Human Development and Family Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, writes about how to help young people develop initiative (2000). He extensively credits Ryan and Deci’s research in his discussion of how adolescents might be encouraged to self-motivate, remarking that the first of three “elements of initiative” (p. 172) is “intrinsic motivation, the experience of wanting to be doing and activity and being invested in it.” There is no way to manufacture or fake this condition, though with the right emphasis and planning, it can be kindled. The second part is “concerted engagement in the environment, with exertion of constructive attention in a field of action involving the types of constraints, rules, challenge, and complexity that characterize external reality.” An appropriate challenge is necessary and good for skill development. Making an environment that is realistically difficult is also exciting. Thirdly, it takes time to nurture real growth or to become secure in one’s own progress. Larson continues, “Initiative involves a temporal arc of effort directed toward a goal, an arc that might include setbacks, re-evaluations, and adjustment of strategies.”

Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation | Video on TED.com

Teacher's Blogs

Here's a short list of interesting Teacher's blogs I've found along the way.

Dan Myer, Edutopia, Guerilla Educators, J.D. Howell,

List of stuff I have to Blog on..

Reaction to the critical pedagogy podcast-
New words Lancaster model of education
Why I haven't read Pedagogy of the Oppressed yet

My sense of inadequacy - before you can change anything you must understand it.

What is my motivations behind this blog in the context of the other great blogs I've found.

Idea; Interview yourself - do your own podcast and in it situate yourself in terms of your philosophy of education. Cover, pragmatism, are you an academic? (lazy, easy to write etc.), list of writers/thinkers to explore, the state of your political consciousness, basic counselling skilks, YSI & Larson, positive psychology. philosophy of psychology - my meeting with John McCarthy, active citizenship, Youth-led Development, Youth and Community Work, nation wide change, social democracy - Sweden and Finland, atheism, Ken Robinson, creativity, innovation and the smart economy, Key words - ownership, relevance and facilitation.

Aside; Instrumental Hybridity e.g. Heroic Leadership

Why my blog is annonymous.

Life as learning.

Positive psychology and education = Positive Education; What would it look like; the gratitude letter.

Quadratic Equations - from the Guerilla Educators Blog

Here's a link to their blog - Guerilla Educators.

Critical Pedagogy Podcast

Coventry University Podcast Service - Critical Pedagogy

This is what I have been listening to when I've been cleaning ovens in my new job as a warden of a student accommodation complex.
I salute Joyce Cannan, Gurnam Singh and the other Left academics involved for creating this valuable space critical pedagogy. Who knows their could be radicals walking amoung you right now with one earphone in listening to this podcast.... dun dun dun.

The podcasts so far include;

Joyce Canaan on the Neoliberal University, Critical Pedagogy and Popular Education

Steve Wright on Autonomist Marxism, Social Movements and Popular Education

Philip Chambers on Critical Reflection and Critical Pedagogy.

Michael Wlliams on Indigenous Pedagogy