Educating for the Unknown
How do we prepare our students for the future?
Wednesday 11th - Friday 13th March 2020
Holiday Inn Orchard City Centre
Singapore
I am delighted to be returning to Singapore in March 2020, for Nurture Craft International's conference, Educating for the Unknown.
I am honoured to be part of a panel of incredible keynote speakers discussing how the developments in the world today invite us to rethink how we are preparing our students for the future. This conference convenes leading thinkers in the field of education to explore compelling opportunities for nurturing learners for the unknown in preschool through tertiary classrooms.
Over three days, the conference will incorporate plenary sessions, workshops and panel discussions that will explore:
- Lifeworthy learning
- Learning in and for a complex world
- Nurturing ecological thinkers
- Making learning visible
- Dispositions for the unknown
- Pedagogy of play
- Making thinking routine
- Mindset Change
I will be working alongside a number of renknowned international experts, including Harvard Project Zero,
Independent Schools Victoria, International Schools of Helsinki, National University of Singapore,
School of the Arts Singapore, Columbus Museum of Art, and Nurture Craft International.
Conference speakers & workshop facilitators
Plenary Speakers
David Perkins
Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
David Perkins is the Carl H. Pforzheimer, Jr., Research Professor of Teaching and Learning at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. David Perkins received his Ph.D. in mathematics and artificial intelligence from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1970. As a graduate student he also was a founding member of Harvard Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He co-directed Project Zero for nearly 30 years, and now serves as senior co-director on its steering committee.
Flossie Chua
Project Director at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Flossie Chua is a Project Director at Project Zero. Her work focuses on understanding how we can nurture good thinking and practices that develop the capacity for informed and positive action. Her projects involve exploring emerging practices of progressive pedagogies in schools, and the shared leadership structures in schools that support them, and innovative paradigms for visual artists and the arts to operate in relationship to their communities and the world.
Mara Krechevsky
Senior Researcher at Project Zero. Harvard Graduate School of Education, USA
Mara Krechevsky is a senior researcher at Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is currently the Project Director of Making Learning and Thinking Visible in Italian Secondary Schools, a cross-cultural collaboration to adapt PZ frameworks for Italian secondary schools, and a researcher on the Pedagogy of Play Project, a collaboration with the Lego Foundation and the International School of Billund, Denmark, to develop a pedagogy for supporting learning through play from preschool to middle school.
Michelle Green
Chief Executive,
Independent Schools
Victoria, Australia
Aynur Simsirel
Principal Advisor,
Independent Schools
Victoria, Australia
Leher Singh
Department of Psychology,
National University of Singapore
James Anderson
Creator of the Mindset Continuum,
Speaker, Author, Educator.
Affiliate Director for Institute for Habits of Mind
Henry Toi
Dean, Research and Development,
Global EduHub,
Affiliate Director,
Institute for Habits of Mind,
Singapore
Kieren Noonan
Head of Innovation,
Independent Schools
Victoria, Australia
Aaron M. Ellison
Deputy Director,
Harvard Forest,
Harvard University, USA
Anita Chen
Technology Director,
International School of Helsinki,
Finland
Cindy Foley
Executive Deputy
Director for Learning
and Experience,
Columbus Museum of Art,
Ohio, USA
Mary Seah
Principal,
School of the Arts,
Singapore
Michael Noonan
Head of Research,
Independent Schools Victoria,
Australia
Conference Program
Idea Studio – Where Problems Meet Solutions
An idea studio is a session led by a conference participant who shares an authentic problem statement and invites fellow conference participants to explore solutions to it.
Idea studio sessions are about 160 minutes long with a lunch break in between. During this time, participants will be briefed on a problem statement and will be guided by facilitators to use appropriate thinking protocols and strategies to facilitate solution finding. The solutions will be shared on the last day of the conference during the “Sense-Making” session by the leader of each idea studio.
Conference participants are invited to submit idea studio proposals which are essentially problem statements.
The conference committee will evaluate and inform you of the status of your proposal.
Please go to http://www.nurturecraft.com/conference/registration to submit using the online form.
The conference will address the following inquiry questions:
What might compelling pedagogical practices look like if we were to nurture learners capable of thriving in ambiguity and engaging complexity?
What matters most to teach and learn for a complex and ambiguous future?
How might school leaders support teaching and learning for a complex and ambiguous future?
How do we reimagine teachers’ professional development if they are
to effectively nurture such learners?
Make 2020 the year you focus on preparing your students for an unknown future.
Join me at the Educating for the Unknown Conference this March.
Wednesday 11th- Friday 13th March 2020
Holiday Inn Orchard Centre
Singapore
