Yvanka Fiorini - M.A. Education, University College London

15/09/2023

Some evidence-based research on the matter ...

With 95% of teens on social media, concerns over early smartphone and tablet exposure's impact on neurological and social growth are intensifying. Recent fin...

07/09/2023

Skills development within a European Year of Skills’ context

National Skills Council

10/01/2023

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21/12/2022

30/10/2022

/ Leonardo da Vinci /
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do."
Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci was an Italian polymath of the High Renaissance who was active as a painter, draughtsman, engineer, scientist, theorist, sculptor and architect. While his fame initially rested on his achievements as a painter, he also became known for his notebooks, in which he made drawings and notes on a variety of subjects, including anatomy, astronomy, botany, cartography, painting, and paleontology. Leonardo's genius epitomized the Renaissance humanist ideal, and his collective works compose a contribution to later generations of artists matched only by that of his younger contemporary, Michelangelo. Born out of wedlock to a successful notary and a lower-class woman in, or near, Vinci, he was educated in Florence by the Italian painter and sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. He began his career in the city, but then spent much time in the service of Ludovico Sforza in Milan."
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Born:Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci, April 15, 1452, (Anchiano?) Vinci, Republic of Florence
Died: May 2, 1519, Clos Lucé, Amboise, Kingdom of France
Education: Studio of Andrea del Verrocchio
Known for: Painting, drawing, engineering, science, sculpture, architecture
Notable work: Virgin of the Rocks (c. 1483–1493), Lady with an Ermine (c. 1489–1491), The Vitruvian Man (c. 1490), The Last Supper (c. 1492–1498), Mona Lisa (c. 1503–1516)
Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"

27/10/2022

Should be interesting....

18/10/2022

Interesting resources on educational neuroscience by the Centre for Educational Neuroscience

The CEN has written a resource which gives an overview of how the brain works, for a general reader. It is intended to give a gist of the brain’s principles of function. As explained by Micha…

18/10/2022

Taking time to reflect on the bigger picture...

04/10/2022

"The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life." ~ Confucius
Book: https://amzn.to/3xZWOer
The Analects (Penguin Classics) by Confucius

01/10/2022

/ Martin Heidegger /
"Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher who is best known for contributions to phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He is among the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th century. After his election as rector at the University of Freiburg in 1933, there has been controversy about the relationship between his philosophy and Na**sm. In Heidegger's fundamental text Being and Time, "Dasein" is introduced as a term for the type of being that humans possess. Dasein has been translated as "being there". Heidegger believes that Dasein already has a "pre-ontological" and non-abstract understanding that shapes how it lives. This mode of being he terms "being-in-the-world". Dasein and "being-in-the-world" are unitary concepts at odds with rationalist philosophy and its "subject/object" view since at least René Descartes."
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Born: 26 September 1889, Meßkirch, Baden, German Empire
Died: May 26, 1976, Meßkirch, Baden-Württemberg West Germany
Martin Heidegger (1968). “What is called thinking?”

21/09/2022

Sobering news, but the system is truly in need of transformation….

“The reasons behind the crisis are vast, however, many point fingers at a rigid syllabus and curriculum that fails to foster long-term learning and retention among its students.”

Malta’s education system is failing its students, a new survey has found. According to a survey conducted by Freehour in conjunction with Deloitte, 77.8% of young people believe that the educational system will remain the same or worsen in the next five years. And it appears that the educational s...

21/09/2022

"Societies demand a lot from their teachers. They need pedagogical skills, specialist and transversal subject knowledge, and to adapt and update them in response to societal challenges, such as the digital and green transitions. More recently, with the health pandemic, we witnessed how teachers were called upon to upskill and moderate the sudden shift to distance and online learning and the upheavals for learners." ETF - European Training Foundation
https://www.etf.europa.eu/en/news-and-events/news/teachers-making-difference