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=Is Lightning Reef a school of the future?= media type="youtube" key="_lW8ihhWBZA?fs=1" height="385" width="640" = = =Sir Ken Robinson= You may have heard this name thrown around in Education recently. Sir Ken i s an author, speaker and international advisor on education, born in England who travels the world advising educators on the role of creativity in education. This year the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) animated one of Robinson's speeches about changing education paradigms. The video was watched nearly half a million times in the first week on YouTube.

media type="custom" key="7301001" = = =Homework= To go with the video below, Alfie Kohn has offered his opinion on the need of homework, or more to the point, the lack of a need for homework. This Charlie Brown movie was discussed recently in [|Shelly Terrell's blog]

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You may have heard of Alfie Kohn and his thoughts on education. This video looks at the reward systems used in the classroom.

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Education Today and Tomorrow.
I really like this clip. One of the comments on You Tube about this video...'I hope my teacher has watched this'.

media type="youtube" key="Fnh9q_cQcUE?fs=1" height="461" width="576" This video also focuses on the point that Sir Ken brought up - Our education system was made for the industrial revolution, where people were trained for factory work. It is hard to believe in 300 years not a lot has changed! Yet!