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Thinking in the New Australian Curriculum
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Phil Bachmann said:
Cows are happy and they don't know how to think
How do you know cows are happy, Phil? Don't believe everything you read on the side of a milk carton!
By the way, if we all convert to Islam, then polygamy rules.
Franis, how d…
Edward must be in Oz right now. I've just torn a page (destined for my scrapbook) out of the last Sunday Herald featuring a photo of him sitting in a Bauhaus chair (wearing multi-coloured socks matching the vaguely Modigliani wall-hanging behind him…
Like Martin, I agree that the 'core curriculum' has no apparent consistent 'shape'. It needs to be looked at country by country.
In NZ, 'the core' is taught until Year 10 - 15 year olds - and comprises English, Maths, Science, Social Studies, Art,…
Franis wrote:
It makes me want to marry an Aussie, just reading this possibility...
Being so fantastic we're all taken - but some of us like to support a harem
Phil, thanks for bringing that to my attention. Presumably like the other 11,000-odd subscribed members, I had no idea I had been purloined.
I would however, like to note the following:
hW
Gillard's site is just a lookup table. There is no intera…
Graeme wrote:
By the way, is there, yet, a discussion forum/debate in the Sydney Morning Herald about the draft curriculum? In my experience across the ditch, bringing the debate into the public arena, into the media, is an excellent approach that…
Why the assumption that twelve year olds (Year 7) may not be up to understanding the contemporary world in a way that might be useful?
Why waste their brilliance on Greece and Rome?
Get Year 7 to solve the energy crisis and climate change.
PO: Hi…
Looking at the History draft now....
There's nothing revolutionary about the way the various year groups are assigned topic areas in a chronological sequence. Why do Year 7 always get to do Ancient Greece and Rome? Why are contemporary History stud…
Thinking Skills I (CoRT, HoM)
Thinking Skills II (Parallel Thinking, Six Hat Thinking)
Thinking Skills III (DATT, de Bono Code)
All we need after that is
English
Math
Science
History can be an elective subject for those who wish to pursue it…
So what should the 'core' subjects of education be ?
Great thinking direction, to explore: We turn away from History so that we are not condemned to repeat the errors of the past ( Kim Jones on March 5, 2010 at 10:02am)
It is a provocative post, Martin. This is the home of Lateral Thinking. We do a lot of provocation and challenge thinking around here. I don't think there are too many people that open their mouths on this site that want to defend any kind of status…
Is 'history' in the K-10 draft national curriculum history or 'social studies'?
I agree with Rob that we need to question 'things'. Hope I have interpreted what you have written correctly, Rob. I have suggested, in the Oz Curriculum threat that we should question the choice of subjects.
Hi Kim,
Yep, seems, if my inner voices are in tune, that history is an important subject, even at the K-10 level in the curriculum draft.
I'm going to look at how the planners describe 'history' before making further comment.
Thanks Rob.
No, I wouldn't want to eliminate History from the curriculum, but I do want to see it demoted from it's pride of place alongside Maths and English as important "core" subject.
Why the hell do we teach so much History? How are we going…
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- Dennis Perrin - Kim Jones: a quick biographical sketch. Kim Jones (b. 1956, now age 52) started composing when he was 8 years old and has over 25 years experience as an educator. Following an 8 year apprenticeship to music composition, learning from Edwin Carr (1925-2003) - New Zealand’s leading composer, he attained his Bachelor of Music with 1st Class Honours in composition from Sydney University in 1983, this time under Australian composers Peter Sculthorpe and Eric Gross. He considers himself today to be a “trans-Tasman” musician and is recognised as the sole remaining descendant of Alfred Hill (1875 -1960) “Australia’s Grandfather of Music” to pursue a dual career as a composer and a teacher. One of Kim’s composition students during the 1980s was Nigel Westlake, currently Australia’s most celebrated screen composer. His interest in non-orthodox teaching methods led him to study the work of Edward de Bono, in particular the skills of Lateral Thinking and Creative Thinking which are used by many successful business entrepreneurs and artists. Subsequently he avoided the “tick-box culture” of formal teacher training but was nevertheless head-hunted by several top Sydney Independent private Colleges (The Scots College, Cranbrook School) and pursued a variegated career of private studio tutoring, university lecturing and extensive Independent secondary school teaching (St. Spyridon College, Moriah College,The French School of Sydney). During the 1980s, Kim was involved with in-service training for music teacher graduates and adult continuing education in Music (NSW Conservatorium and Sydney University). During the early 1990s he lived and worked in France, based in the city of Bourges, rehearsing, conducting and performing with community choirs and orchestras, teaching piano, clarinet and solfège at the Conservatorium of Vierzon whilst enjoying a composer residency at the Château de Mongoux which was transformed into a performing arts centre during his stay. On his return to Australia he plunged into the world of computer music, quickly building a reputation as a discerning music technologist with a cutting-edge view of teaching and learning utilising and enhancing the structures available via the Apple Macintosh platform. Creative collaborations ensued leading to his being chosen as music supervisor for several Sydney Opera House multi-media productions by award winning digital artist John Simmons and internationally renowned philosopher Simon Critchley. In 1973 Kim, while still a school student was awarded the Frank Hutchens National Award for composition. Participating in many composer workshops and writing music for any purpose has led to an extraordinary versatility in designing music for live instruments and electronics. His understanding of dual-aspect creativity has allowed him to side step conformist artistic and education orthodoxy and to successfully impart the important higher-order thinking skills through teaching a range of educational subjects including French language, Australian Mandatory History and Thinking Skills.
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Why Is History a Core Subject in Schools?
For too long now we have been driving the car with our eyes firmly fixed on the rear vision mirror. Suddenly - WHAM!! We collide disastrously with the future. Too much intellectual energy in education is wasted on teaching somebody's version of the past. Personally, I always look out of the front windscreen of the car I am driving and only occasionally give a glance to what is happening behind me.
Get my drift?
History is such a safe subject to teach because it is all there… Continue
Get my drift?
History is such a safe subject to teach because it is all there… Continue
Posted on March 2, 2010 at 9:47am — 38 Comments
Another Perspective on the Red Hat
Why do we have emotions? Aren't simple, value-conferring feelings good enough or something? Emotions cause a host of extraordinary, beautiful and wondrous things to happen in life as well as all sorts of nonsensical and disastrous issues in the world.
Let's look at this a bit more carefully...
A worm probably doesn't have emotions but we might just allow that it has feelings. There is much evidence to support this, apparently.
Do we have emotions because we are noble, sensitive, artistic, exp… Continue
Let's look at this a bit more carefully...
A worm probably doesn't have emotions but we might just allow that it has feelings. There is much evidence to support this, apparently.
Do we have emotions because we are noble, sensitive, artistic, exp… Continue
Posted on January 2, 2010 at 10:00am — 1 Comment
A Truly Beautiful Mind
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Carolyn Porco - the genius behind the imagery beamed back from the Cassini mission to the outer planets. Carolyn has shown us the vast architecture of our solar system and taken us to places we can reach - places where life might exist. My favourite female on the planet.
If you ever read Carl Sagan's only novel "C… Continue
Carolyn Porco - the genius behind the imagery beamed back from the Cassini mission to the outer planets. Carolyn has shown us the vast architecture of our solar system and taken us to places we can reach - places where life might exist. My favourite female on the planet.
If you ever read Carl Sagan's only novel "C… Continue
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 11:00am — 15 Comments
Bureaucracy Will Never Die
I read this marvelous essay some years ago and then lost track of it. I have just found it again on a website dedicated to Space Exploration: http://www.astrodigital.org/space owned by a Jim Plaxco. I don't know who the author is because no credit is given on the site and my original copy didn't specify who the author was either.
Whoever he/she is, they get a 10 out of 10 from me for thinking this thing through.
Perhaps this piece will help to il… Continue
Whoever he/she is, they get a 10 out of 10 from me for thinking this thing through.
Perhaps this piece will help to il… Continue
Posted on October 29, 2009 at 11:00am — 8 Comments
Comment Wall (12 comments)
- At 7:17am on March 6, 2010,
Kim Jones said…
- You have operacy. Gloat freely.
- At 10:13am on March 5, 2010,
Franis said… - Kim, I think we should congratulate ourselves on harping about it until the spammers got taken care of.
Did you see the anonymously sent a police hat "gift" to the admin?
Figured out that admin is the first person registered as a member. Does that mean I have "operacy'?
- At 10:08am on March 5, 2010,
Franis said…
- Glad to hear that. Was I really that much of a mind-reader? ;o
- At 8:16am on March 5, 2010,
Kim Jones said…
- I didn't kill myself, and it was just an expression, tossed off to illustrate how disappointed I was (am) as an adjunct to my blog post.
- At 10:51pm on March 4, 2010,
Franis said…
- Kim? Tell me you didn't kill yourself, that it was just an expression, tossed off to illustrate how disappointed you are as an adjunct to your blog post. You've got me worried. I know you have a life beyond the computer, but I have no idea how serious or jocular you might be to say something like that.
- At 5:49am on February 28, 2010,
Graeme Allan said…
- Thanks Kim. I know that Franis has shown interest. I'll pass that on to Peter and Edward. Yep, as usual the tsunami attracted lots of Kiwis to the beaches for a look :-) Not the first time this has happened. It's the Kiwi beer - destroys brain cells quicker than most :-)
Of course The Shaky Isles must be somewhere on the waiting list for a big shake. The last was 1856 and 9.8 - that was the estimate. Wellington coastline jumped up 1m+ in places. I'll report back on the conversation.
- At 8:22am on February 27, 2010,
- Kim, I am again making 'comments' to Peter de Bono about spamming here. Wish me luck.
- At 8:42am on December 20, 2009,
Franis said…
- Kim, I got my own invite after asking Google directly in a matter of a few days. In fact, I got four invites once I started talking about wanting to "wave." You need a gmail account, for starters. I could send you an invite if I knew your email address. Guess I'll try to send you mine on a private message...
- At 10:28pm on October 6, 2009,
Franis said…
- Kim! You're a featured person up there with the "greats" on this website! As far as I'm concerned, that's where you belong.
- At 5:44am on September 13, 2009,
Phil Bachmann said… - Beutiful Kim,
Made my eyes water.
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