creativity

Millions of parents and carers have suddenly found themselves responsible for overseeing their children’s education from home.

I was delighted to write this short piece for Wired UK, and hope you find it useful
 

Standardisation broke education. Here’s how we can fix our schools

“The movement towards personalisation is already advancing in medicine. We must move quickly in that direction in education, too”

If you haven’t seen it yet – take a look at In Search of Greatness from @gabepolsky. The unbeatable power of creativity and passion at the heart of sport. @greatnessmovie

“He realized the limitations of his own physique and developed a whole new style of boxing that suited him.”

Between the experience of living a normal life at this moment on the planet and the public narratives being offered to give a sense to that life, the empty space, the gap, is enormous.  The desolation lies there, not in the facts.
— John Berger, “A Man with Tousled Hair” in The Shape of a Pocket, May 11, 2003

Education is potentially the most powerful means of bringing about a major shift in consciousness, within the individual and by extension society; a movement away from narrow ideas of self that feed selfishness, division and material greed, to an inclusive view of life rooted in the recognition that humanity is one. We are forever brothers and sisters of one humanity, and from the realization of this essential fact flows all that is good: sharing, social justice, collective responsibility, freedom and peace.

Jay Dyer
21st Century Wire

Brilliant to be in Dublin, and to appear on Ireland AM. You can view my interview by following this link.
 

More than 700 people from at least 19 countries converged at the Omni Hotel in Atlanta’s CNN Center last weekend for the largest and most ambitious event of FEE’s history. We are still buzzing here in the FEE office from the excitement and energy generated at the first-ever FEEcon. But FEEcon is not a one-off event. It’s a bridge to the future!
Mark these dates for next year: June 7-9, 2018.

It is impossible to think that an archaic, industrial model of forced schooling can keep pace with the new, tech-enabled, information-saturated economy. Success in the future requires agility, inventiveness, collaboration, and continuous knowledge-sharing. A truly transformative 21st century education model will cultivate, rather than crush, human creativity.

Terrorists are often sold on the idea that they could be heroes, so Suleiman Bakhit came up with a creative way to fight this myth. The Jordanian social entrepreneur and comic book author has created a set of stories for young Arab Muslims that offer an alternative narrative to extremist ideologies.