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00:00 Introduction and Welcome

02:30 Introduction and interview with Maggy of Red Ted Art.com

Toddlers and crafts

Story + art = StART

Allie Hodge: Life’s Laundry

19:20 Kari of Activekidsclub.com

Weekly find:

ARTICLE                  Why myths of brightness need to be left in the shade

Source: The TES on 1 October, 2010  Professors Guy Claxton and Bill Lucas

” ..we see intelligence as a fixed-sized pot of general-purpose mental resource, we are led to think of teaching as an activity that exploits this intelligence.”

” 2.  Intelligence is expandable

Many of these mental habits are strengthened – or weakened – by experience. Real-world intelligence is, to a sizable extent, learnable. The focus on identifying students’ “ability” levels – “Ruby is an able student”, “Zack is average”- is giving way to a focus on the expandability of their learning power. In pioneering work with youngsters in the US, Carol Dweck, Lauren Resnick and others have shown how children who believe they can get smarter do so. They are more willing to experiment, make errors, try hard and extract every ounce of learning from their experiences. The implications for the way teachers think, talk and write about students are huge. If we talk as if intelligence were fixed, and praise kids for their ability rather than their effort, we are breeding anxious, conservative performers, keen to show how “bright” they are. If we talk as if minds were like muscles that can be strengthened, pupils will be more resilient and adventurous – and the research shows they get better results, too.”

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