Tag: Education

  • Drawing needs instruction

    You wouldn’t expect a child to learn to write without instruction, so why do we expect them to be able to draw without instruction? Writing is just another form of drawing – a method of making sense of the world and communicating ideas with marks. Most people agree with the saying that a picture speaks…

  • An extraordinary vision of education

    Do you know about TED.com? If not, then you are in for a treat. TED is packed with videos of lectures given by some of the greatest thinkers, academics, designers and people who are generally doing stuff in this world. If you are of the old school, that thinks that you can only learn from…

  • Wilcombe, Sampford Peverill and Hemyock – federated Schools – Devon

    Last week I visited three schools in and around Tiverton in Devon. What was interesting about them was that they had come together as a Federation. Wilcombe, in Tiverton, was the lead school, looking for partners to join them. As I understand it, a speed-dating event was organised and Sampford Peverill and Hemyock liked the…