Research+and+Reading

=// Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement // = (18 November 2008) = = || [|Short interview with John Hattie.] Hattie discusses "What works most effectively in schools" ( A Maths Summer school but Hattie's viewpoint is relevant to Art teachers) || =Honorary Professor John Hattie = Director, Melbourne Education Research Institute, University of Melbourne Graduate School of Education || [|Bring on the learning revolution] 2010 update || **Sir Ken Robinson** (born 4 March 1950) is an author, speaker, and international advisor on education in the arts to government, non-profits, education, and arts bodies. He was Director of The Arts in Schools Project (1985–89), Professor of Arts Education at the **University of Warwick (1989–2001), and was knighted in 2003 for services to education.** || =//The New Rules of Engagement// = (01 October 2007) = = ||  || **Michael McQueen**, is a Sydney-based speaker, social researcher and 3-time best selling author. Graduating from university in 2002, Michael is a previous winner of the NSW Young Business Person of the Year award. || ==**//Millennials in the Workplace: Human Resource Strategies for a New Generation //**//(March 2010) //== || [|Neill Howe on the Millennials] Some interesting comments on the generation of students we are teaching and the cylic nature of generations. || **Neill Howe** is a historian, economist, and demographer. Howe is a founding partner of the consulting firm LifeCourse Associates. He is a marketing, personnel, and government affairs consultant to corporate and nonprofit clients, and has spoken and written extensively on the collective personalities of today’s generations—who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America’s future. **William Strauss** (February 5, 1947 – December 18, 2007) was an American author, historian, playwright, theater director, and lecturer. As a historian, he is known for [|his work with Neil Howe] on social generations and for [|their theory] of generational cycles in American history. || [|All Things PLC (Professional Learning Communities)] DuFour discusses the importance of teachers working collaboratively and focussing on student learning. There are explicit examples of the success of PLCs in America schools on the second site. ||  || (AIZ - Achievement Improvement Zones) || **Dr John Munro** is Head Of Studies In Exceptional Learning and Gifted in the Graduate School of Education at The University of Melbourne. He is a trained primary and secondary teacher and a registered psychologist. || (February 16, 2012) || [|Revolution in the Classroom] This may not be available for long but an insight into schools whose academic performance has improved and the interventions undertaken. ||  || [|The Finnish experience of empowering teachers] ||   || (23/4/12) || [[home#mce_temp_url#|[|“Who do you want your child to be?”] ]] || David Whitebread, the importance of play to children
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 * **Sugata Mitras** " The child-driven education , (2010) //Speaking at the annual TED//, a nonprofit devoted to " Ideas Worth Spreading" || [|TED Presentation] Fascinating video on how children will learn what they want to, teach other students. || **Prof. Sugata Mitra** is Professor of Educational Technology at the School of [|Education], Communication and Language Sciences at [|Newcastle University], UK ||
 * **John Hattie**
 * **Sir Ken Robinson** || [|Schools Kill Creativity] TED presentation from 2006 but still very relevant.
 * ** Dr Robert J Marzano ** || [|Is this important? Can I do this?] Excellent PP on engaging students . || ** Dr Robert J Marzano ** is a leading researcher in education, he is a speaker, trainer, and author of more than 30 books and 150 articles on topics such as instruction, assessment, writing and implementing standards, cognition, effective leadership, and school intervention. Recommended by John Hattie. ||
 * **Marco Torres** || [| Digital Learning] || **Marco Torres** is a former high school teacher from Los Angeles, Marco Torres is on President Barack Obama's technology in education advisory committee. ||
 * ** Michael McQueen **
 * **Teacher Training International** **On Generation Z** (August 3, 2011) || [|Teaching Gen Z] || Site supported by by Sth Australian, NSW and Qld Educational services. ||
 * ** Marc Prensky ** //Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants (2001)// || [|Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants] || **Marc Prensky is an internationally acclaimed speaker, writer, consultant, visionary and innovator in the field of education and learning.** He is the founder and Creative Director of **[|Spree Games]** (a K-12 curricular games company), the founder and CEO of **[|Games2train]** (a business games company whose clients include IBM, Nokia, Pfizer, the US Department of Defence and the L.A. and Florida Virtual Schools) and creator of the sites [|DoD Game Community] and Social Impact Games. ||
 * **William Strauss and Neill Howe** The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy. New York: Broadway Books, 1997. **Neill Howe**
 * **Richard DuFour** || [|The Solution Tree]
 * **Dr John Munroe** || [] This site has lots of resources of adolescent learning, VCE strategies, literacy and comprehension strategies.
 * **ABC Four Corners**
 * **Learning Forward** || **[|Learning Communities]**
 * **ACARA** || [|The Arts Curriculum] ||  ||
 * **SBS**

Brain Butterworth, section of brain that controls Math reasoning

Walter Michel, the original marshmallow experiment

Carol Dwerk, how not to talk to your kids (this was really interesting!!!!)

Dr. Sarah Blackmore, teenagers and their physiological changes. ||