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Narrative pedagogy 3: Problem solving

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In this short series (on what I will call 'narrative pedagogy'*) I'm exploring some of the storytelling techniques that can be adapted for use in education. The use of deus ex machina can be seen in the movie Life of Brian. My use signifies how storytelling devices can be applied to everyday pedagogy. Unported License.

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All our tomorrows

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Many technologies are a lot older than we realise, and many are already on the drawing board, or in production before we see them even appearing in science fiction movies. Gesture based computing was already being developed before it featured in the movie Minority Report. Unported License.

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All you need is love

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More songs, poems, stories and movies have been written about love than any other subject under the sun. Collaborative learning is on the rise in modern pedagogy, because teachers have discovered that children tend to learn more when they discuss, compare and contrast their ideas. It took them years to reconcile their differences.

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BETTing on the future

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By good pedagogy. I’m currently reading Andy Wier’s The Martian , which is a fiction book (recently a movie starring Matt Damon, but the book is better than the movie) about an astronaut stranded on Mars. How can student outcomes best be improved in the next decade? All else is secondary and an extension of this.

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BETTing on the future

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By good pedagogy. I’m currently reading Andy Wier’s The Martian , which is a fiction book (recently a movie starring Matt Damon, but the book is better than the movie) about an astronaut stranded on Mars. How can student outcomes best be improved in the next decade? All else is secondary and an extension of this.

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Minimally invasive education

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Every aspect of it - curriculum, pedagogy, assessment and certification. Steve: You seem to have attracted the nickname of the 'Slumdog Professor' in regards to the influence your research had on the making of the Slum Dog Millionaire movie. Schooling does not need improvement, it needs to be reinvented. Let me give you an example.

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Steps reunion

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Well, Dan Roberts has moved on to warmer climes, but the campaign to aspire to better pedagogy continues. One mission involved the teams trying to recreate and capture a famous movie scene and a scene from history using modelling clay, tiny figurines and anything else they could get their hands on. Unported License.

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