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Students, Take Back the Power from your Teachers in the Classroom!

The title of this post may seem provocative and quite scary to most teachers and authoritative figures in the educational system.  In fact it is meant to represent the contrary.  Handing over power and giving student more autonomy in the classroom actually promotes the core virtue that every educational system holds dear – teaching students how to think, not

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Weekend Funnies

Abbott and Costello are masters of turning a numeric riddle into knee slapping humour, everyone knows the old \”who\’s on first\” routine.   We hope you are having a productive weekend, make sure you take a little break for a chuckle with this classic humour. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo4NCXOX0p8] [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLprXHbn19I]

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2 MM

It is said that a child has 2 million minutes from the beginning to the end of highschool…Two Million Minutes to build their intellectual foundation…Two Million Minutes to prepare for college and ultimately career…Two Million Minutes to go from a teenager to an adult.  How do North American students use these 2 million minutes in

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Are Children Educated Away From a Creative Mindset?

Considered one of the worlds leading thinkers, creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we are educating our children.  He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. He has written a book called \”Out of Mind – Learning to be Creative\” as well as \”The

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