Welcome
A website helping develop literacy. In particular useful for thinking about what the world might be like in the future. The sci-fi Literacy Shed: http://www.literacyshed.com/the-sci---fi-shed.html
The general shed http://www.literacyshed.com/
This is also enormous fun to generate class names or kick off imaginations: http://fantasynamegenerators.com/ particularly click on ‘other names’
Websites which encourage you to be excited about your life and what you can achieve:
Marianne Cantwell http://www.free-range-humans.com/
Ramit Sethi http://www.iwillteachyoutoberich.com/home3/
John Williams http://www.screwworkletsplay.com/
Escape The City http://www.escapethecity.org/
Barbara Sher http://www.barbarasher.com/index.htm
Tim Ferris http://fourhourworkweek.com/
Art Williams’ fantastic ‘Just do it’ speech:
The full 20 minute speech here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7R9c0RAz678. A shorter (6 minute) version can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G05QtiHP1lI (this one is great to show in class). There’s even a transcript that has been made of the speech available at: http://www.ps20.net/art-williams-do-it/
Teaching thinking skills – selected resources 2003’ NUT link to report: https://www.teachers.org.uk/files/thinking_skills.pdf
Other thinking skills websites
The Flipped classroom. The wonderful TED-Ed is onto this idea and they have it all sorted for you just find them on http://ed.ted.com/ and register (it’s free). You will then get a lovely email from them explaining how to use their online flipped class resource.
Additional links you might like to read at this point are: http://thedailyriff.com search for ‘flipped class myths’ and check out an article called ‘The Flipped Class: Myths vs Reality’
Further great site to search for ideas is Educators Technology: http://www.educatorstechnology.com but you may find yourself completely lost and overwhelmed with the sheer number of resources on there so you can cut straight to the flipped classroom tools by adding this string on to the end of the address: /2014/07/the-best-tools-and-apps-for-flipped.html
Some inspirational schools that might spark off a few ideas:
Sudbury Valley School, the American model of our Summerhill. The video is particularly illuminating: http://www.sudval.org/
News report about Northern Beaches Christian School’s new teaching environment: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohnC3sURgKU&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Riverside school home: http://www.schoolriverside.com/
Ted talk by Kiran Bir Sethi, founder of Riverside School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKU-FEGabuY#t=36Lumiar Schools, Brazil, founded by Ricardo Semler: http://lumiar.org.br/index.php/como-fazemos/um-novo-cidadao/?lang=en
Quest to Learn (q2l) schools, New York: http://vimeo.com/tag:q2l/page:1/sort:date/format:thumbnail
Homesite: http://upperschool.q2l.org/
Forest Avenue Elementary School in Rhode Island showing what you can do without starting a whole new school from scratch. This is the short version (7 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oH-BURVsGQ
Long version (14 minutes): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ojBaxxdPz4
Institute of play: http://vimeo.com/instituteofplay/videos/sort:date/format:thumbnail
Teacherquest: http://www.instituteofplay.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/0725_IOP_TEACHERQUEST.pdf
Useful in all sorts of ways! Random word generators http://www.wordgenerator.net/ , http://www.textfixer.com/tools/random-words.php , http://creativitygames.net/random-word-generator
Inspiring the future, professional volunteers into schools: http://www.inspiringthefuture.org/
Blog post on the benefits of fartlek: http://healthland.time.com/2012/05/17/qa-how-a-little-exercise-brings-big-benefits/
Mindset website by Carol Dweck: http://www.mindsetworks.com/
Brilliant student-made video, making geeks look great! Teach me how to study: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXgRx3G4DxY
Rejection therapy by Jia Jiang - This is his original video (I like this one best):
http://vimeo.com/70167462
Jia Jiang’s also done a shorter TED talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFWyseydTkQ
And here’s Jia Jiang’s website where he details all the rejections he set himself:
http://www.fearbuster.com/100-days-of-rejection-therapy/
A really thought-provoking blog post about acknowledging our own failure stories: http://www.forbes.com/sites/soniakapadia/2013/10/23/success-stories-are-great-failure-stories-are-even-better/
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