Getting Things Right by Getting Things Wrong- Sophie Pendrell

“Ever tired, ever failed, try again, fail again, fail better.”

Samuel Becket

Experimental

Imaginative

Curious

Intrinsic Interest

Risk Averse

Formulaic

Unquestioning

Chasing Grades

The fetish of failure

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Concept cartoons by Naylor and Keogh

Constructivism

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Constructionism

Seymour Papert’s Big Ideas

The first big idea is learning by doing

The second big idea technology as building material

The third big idea hard is fun

The fourth big idea learning to learn

The fifth big idea is taking the proper time for the job

The sixth big idea is the biggest of all: you can’t get it right without getting it wrong

The seventh big idea is do unto ourselves what we do unto our students.

The eight big idea is we are entering a digital world where knowing about digital technology is as important as reading and writing

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• Forest School

Melting metal 2 ways:

1 indoors

1 outdoors

The first big idea: learning by doing

Making opens up the opportunity to make mistakes, review and correct

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The seventh big idea: do unto ourselves what we do unto our students.

Be seen to make mistakes and take risks yourself.

The sixth big idea: you can’t get it right without getting it wrong

Allow opportunities for failures and mistakes to deepen learning.

Invent to Learn: Martinez and Stager,Constructing Modern Knowledge Press, 2013

I love my World: Chris Holland,Wholeland press, 2012

The Art of Tinkering: Karen Wilkinson, Mike Petrich,Weldon Owen, 2014

Make it Wild: Fiona Danks, Jo Schofield,Frances Lincoln, 2010