Ollie Bray Creativity, pedagogy and the non-negotiables

Edinburgh Early Years

This episode we talk to Ollie Bray, Strategic Director from Education Scotland. The books and reports that Ollie reference are listed below: Screen Sense: Executive Summary • ZERO TO THREE https://www.zerotothree.org/resources/2534-screen-sense-executive-summary Practical Pedagogy: 40 New Ways to Teach and Learn (Prof. Mike Sharples) – Most of this is based on the Innovative Pedagogy series that you can read for free here - Innovating Pedagogy | Open University Innovation Reports http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/ The Art of Tinkering (Dr Karen Wilkinson & Dr Mike Petrich) – All the projects here - The Tinkering Studio Projects | Exploratorium. https://www.exploratorium.edu/tinkering/projects Young Children Playing and Learning in a Digital Age (Christine Stephen and Susan Edwards) – good foundation text to help people look at digital technology and the early years from a cultural and critical perspective. Mindstorms: Children, Computers and Powerful Ideas (Prof. Seymour Papert) – Now available for free here Mindstorms (mit.edu) https://mindstorms.media.mit.edu – It was written in 1980 so much is no longer relvant as it talks a lot about the LOGO programming language. BUT, everyone should read Chapter 1. We didn’t mention it but Ollie also recommends this text: Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers and Play (Prof. Mitch Resnick) – much of the book can be read on Mitch Medium Blog eg: Screen Time? How about Creativity Time? | by Mitchel Resnick | MIT MEDIA LAB | Medium. https://medium.com/mit-media-lab/screen-time-how-about-creativity-time-928528c0214 Skills Development Scotland MetaSkills 4.0. https://www.skillsdevelopmentscotland.co.uk/what-we-do/skills-planning-alignment/skills4-0/