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"If children find learning difficult, it could well be that there is something the matter with the way we are asking them to learn, rather than something the matter with their innate capacity for learning." Frank Smith Nearly everything I’ve done seemed like a good idea at the time. (Clinton Ford, 2005)

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"A computer hard disk reader (a bit like a gramophone needle) that uses a GMR sensor is equivalent to a jet flying at a speed of 30 thousand km/hr (roughly once round the globe in a single hour), at a height of just one metre above the ground, and yet being able to see and catalogue ever single blade of grass it passes over. Comment following the award of the Nobel Prize for the scientists who invented th technology behind the microdrives that store data on iPods etc.

"In every school there is a hidden curriculum which is about the way people treat each other, how teacher treat kids, how kids treat kids.... Thomas Lickens. Sit in the staffroom and listen to the flow of conversation.

The Leading Edge - principals pushng the boundaries Wow!

"teachers don't say interesting stuff because interesting stuff is new and they are scared of making mistakes" 10 yr old

Crowd sourcing - relies on unpaid or low paid people who are prepared to give their time. While many of the tasks (open source developments) are beyond the capabilities and capacities of individuals small collaborating groups have immense power.

Hyper co-ordination - the cybre negotiated public flocking of texting adolescents. They have the ability to organise mass 'events' very quickly.

It does not make sense to leave a dragon out of your calculations if it lives next door to you.

Wonderings about the place of science in today's classrooms. Find a large open space and take a soccer ball to represent the sun. Put the ball down and walk ten paces in a straight line. Stick a pin in the ground. The head of the pin stands for the planet Mercury. Take another 9 paces beyond Mercury and put down a peppercorn to represent Venus. Seven paces on, drop another peppercorn for Earth. (//Some days you're the peppercorn, others the grinder)// One inch away from earth, another pinhead represents the Moon, the furthest place, remember, that we've so far reached. 14 more paces to little Mars, then 95 paces to giant Jupiter, a ping-pong ball. 112 paces further, Saturn is a marble. No time to deal with the outer planets except to say that the distances are much larger. But, how far would you have to walk to reach the nearest star, Proxima Centauri? Pick up another soccer ball to represent it, and set off for a walk of 4200 miles. (t//hat would mean taking it from Masterton to somewhere in the middle of the Nullabor Plains and all of the time you would be going through something much more empty than them - I)// As for the nearest other galaxy, Andromeda, don't even think about it! Who'd go back to astrology when they've sampled the real thing -- astronomy...? Richard Dawkins

How might we get a child to wonder about this

"there are many more molecules in a glass of water than there are glasses of water in the sea"
which is why there is a high probability that in every glass of water you drink there is at least one molecule that passed through the bladder of Aristotle or indeed of every dead or living thing. If one is 80% water does that suggest we might be the total sum of living history.

It is 28 September and a very large full moon has just set over Mt Holdsworth. The fact that people have walked on it adds to the mystery.

A five year old child of the 21st Century knows and understands things that Aristotle did not. I wonder if he would listen?

Just read //The Earth Is Flat//. An interesting read - but how level is it? I wonder how we might define flat education?

We were on safari in Africa and someone had forgotten to pack the cork screw. We had to exist for 4 days on food and water!..A paraphrase of W C Fields