May 2012
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February 2012
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Rwanda Open Summit Program →
imaginelearning:
Wednesday, 23 May: Pre-Summit gathering
School visit, lunch, travel to Musanze and opening celebration.
The SCIL team will visit a school in Kigali on the day before the summit and you are welcome to join us for this. It will provide an interesting comparison to the rural schools we…
Imagine Learning: Rwanda Open Summit →
imaginelearning:
Whats happening?
The Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning is facilitating a ‘collision of minds’ – an Open Summit that aims to create strategic directions for enabling 21st Century learning opportunities for students in regional areas of developing nations. The Summit will be held in…
SCIL Snapshot Tour →
Tues 14 Feb is our first Snapshot for the year. There are still places available and we have more cool things to share.
Innovate 5 - with Steve Collis
Steve Collis, Director of Innovation at the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning, is pleased to offer a 15 session video-conference series exploring strategies for growing your capacity to innovate.
In groups of up to 10 participants, Steve will guide you through a diverse and cross-disciplinary series of toolkits to nurture your capacity for innovation and action. Whether...
December 2011
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NBCS Sports Centre on InDesignLive →
Architectural website indesignlive.com has posted a profile of the Community Sports Centre, completed in 2011 at Northern Beaches Christian School.
A brief tour of the Sports Centre is included in our Snapshot Tours.
“Vision has to trump administration. Resourcing needs to follow vision…...”
– Stephen Harris, Lessons from 2011
Read more →
“Learning is not confined to normal school hours and students can set their own...”
– HSC Learn Online profiled in the Sydney Morning Herald: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/online-studies-receive-pass-mark-20111211-1oprr.html
A world of offers for brightest students (Sydney... →
Read about NBCS student Tyson Churcher and his quest to study at Cambridge: A world of offers for brightest students (Sydney Morning Herald, 19/12/11)
Great work Tyson!
October 2011
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#scil11 Study Tour Reflections →
“I am convinced that the success of a school is not only the result of a particular design and strong pedagogical philosophy, these must be driven by passionate and committed leaders with a vision for the future. These leaders seek to make a lasting difference in the life of the students.”
Read more on Anne Knock’s blog »
#scil11 Study Tour (Part 4) →
TU Delft Library and DOK Library: Both of these places are transforming the traditional understanding of the library, the place where books are kept and be a place where people can come, work, play, connect and, of course, find information.
Read more on Anne Knock’s blog »
#scil11 Study Tour (Part 3) →
DOK Library Concept Centre: There are lots of options to sit and work, read, listen, view, chat, connect, appreciate and lose yourself at DOK in Delft, The Netherlands…
View more images on Anne Knock’s blog »
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Sydney Morning Herald: Study’s the name of the... →
NBCS is featured in today’s Sydney Morning Herald, in an article about the gamification of learning. The article interviews Steve Collis, Director of Innovation at SCIL/NBCS, and the work currently undertaken in Stage 3 (Years 5-6).
#scil11 Study Tour (Part 2) →
Krokslatt, Kunskapsskolan: A great school is not just about designing a clever space, you knew that. From what we observed today we saw a model where the design of the spaces supports the model for learning.
Read more on Anne Knock’s blog »
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#scil11 Study Tour (Part 1) →
Danfoss Universe: The learning philosophy is based on providing everyday experiences, that lead to a basic knowledge and then understanding of the principles to being able to apply that knowledge and utilize both thinking and intuition.
Read more on Anne Knock’s blog »
September 2011
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August 2011
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“Language provides a strong cultural anchor, and an effective mechanism to...”
– Anne Knock, Making Change Stick: The Power of Language
http://anneknock.wordpress.com/2011/08/17/making-change-stick-the-power-of-language/
“So the essential skills of the 21st century schools include collaboration,...”
– Anne Knock in an opinion piece for The Sydney Morning Herald
June 2011
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Tweets from the Charles Leadbeater seminar →
We have had a fantastic day with Charles Leadbeater here at SCIL. Follow the backchannel and continue the conversation: #scilcl
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“When vision is first, then the programs follow, programs that support the vision...”
– Anne Knock, Horse first, then the cart
May 2011
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Recent Presentations by Stephen Harris
Stephen Harris recently presented at the Vancouver Symposium on Christian Education for the 21st Century. His keynote and pre-conference presentations have been made available to download from their website:
The Christian Classroom in 2025: A Case Study from the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning (ZIP)
Infrastructure, Tools, and Architecture for the 21st Century School (PDF)
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WatchCharles Leadbeater on Innovation, TEDGlobal 2005.
(Charles Leadbeater will be speaking at a one-day seminar hosted by SCIL on June 14, 2011. Register online today.)
April 2011
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Imagine Learning: Tomorrow's School Today →
imaginelearning:
Tomorrow’s School Today is a project of the Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning - www.scil.com.au
The equation for learning has changed:
180 students + 1 classroom + 6 teachers = improved learning + zero behaviour issues + fun
What needs to change so that…
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The Learning Matrix →
SCIL has just announced two upcoming PD workshop days for The Learning Matrix:
June 10, 2011
November 4, 2011
To register, or for more information, visit the website.
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“Don’t imagine SCIL as a division within a bigger organization – imagine SCIL as...”
– Béa Beste, playDUcation
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March 2011
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“Thanks to the system, my inbox is at zero, my anxiety has all but disappeared,...”
– Steve Collis on getting his inbox to zero
February 2011
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“Mr Guldbaek says [NBCS] particularly impressed him on his visit because it had...”
– Architect Jens Guldbaek interviewed in The Age
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Snapshot Tours in Term 1
Snapshot Tours are an opportunity for visitors to get a taste of the vision and outworking of SCIL at Northern Beaches Christian School. The highlight of the tours this term will be the newly transformedZone for Stage 3, and the recently completed Sports Centre.
Snapshot Tours will be held on Wednesday 2nd March (10:00-11:30am) and Thursday 31st March (11:30am-1:00pm).
RSVP is essential. For...
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New workshop at SCIL: Effective Teaching,... →
The team at SCIL have been hard at work putting ideas together new workshops for 2011. This ‘team at SCIL’ is actually everyday teachers who have come up with ideas that have worked for them, and they are now ready to share with you. That’s the unique thing about professional development at SCIL — it’s teachers from Northern Beaches Christian School who are presenting ideas that they have...
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“We are constantly exploring how to effectively deliver and engage our teachers...”
– Anne Knock on Professional Development that gives voice
August 2010
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New research papers by Stephen Harris
Two new research papers by Stephen Harris are available to download. These papers were presented in July 2010 at the EduLearn 2010 conference in Barcelona:
The SCIL Story: Embedding Research and Innovation into Everyday School Practice
The Place of Virtual, Pedagogic and Physical Space in the 21st Century Classroom
July 2010
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Snapshot days at SCIL
There continues to be enormous interest in the work we are doing at NBCS and SCIL, particularly in our approach to 21st Century education. To accommodate visitors, we have been hosting snapshot days as an opportunity to meet our staff and students.
The visits last for 2 hours and consist of the following sessions: Session 1: Welcome and introduction to Northern Beaches Christian School and...
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SCIL Online School: 2011 Application Form
The guiding vision for SCIL is to transform learning for the 21st Century. For the past several years, SCIL has been a leader in delivering HSC, Preliminary and Stage 5 courses to students in schools across NSW via online delivery.
The genius of SCIL Online is that students have flexibility. They are able to complete subjects that their Home School may not be able to offer, without having to...
June 2010
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What our visitors are saying
The new SCIL Building has sparked a lot of interest, both nationally and internationally. As a result, SCIL has enjoyed being host to a significant number of visitors to the Northern Beaches Christian Schoolcampus over the past few months. It has been particularly encouraging to note that visitors are not only impressed by the buildings themselves, but often leave more excited by and commenting...
March 2010
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