Slides used for the opening keynote at the Inner South Leading Lifelong Learning conference in Creswick, VIC on 7th March

1. Interact the 21st century way…
www.todaysmeet.com/JamesNottingham
@JamesNottinghm(NB. no ‘a’ between h and m)
#LeadingLearning
www.jamesnottingham.co.uk/interact

2. Leading Lifelong Learning, March 2012
Inner SMR Conference
‘We now accept the fact that learning is a
lifelong process of keeping abreast of
change. And the most pressing task is to
teach people how to learn.’
Peter Drucker, 1909–2005
(Described by Business Week as ‘the man who
invented management’)
jamesnottingham.co.ukchallenginglearning.com

3. www.challenginglearning.com

4. Leading Lifelong Learning
Professor David Starkey, CBE

5. Leading Lifelong Learning
‘What (students) should learn first is not the
subjects ordinarily taught, however important they
may be; they should be given lessons of will, of
attention, of discipline; before exercises in
grammar, they need to be exercised in mental
orthopaedics; in a word they must learn how to
learn.’
Alfred Binet
1857 - 1911

6. Intelligence – nature or nurture?
In 1904, the French government
asked Binet to create a mechanism
for identifying students in need of
alternative education
Binet created a scale of 30 tasks
for 6 – 14 year olds, ranging from
easy to complex ones
He stated his test showed what a
child had learnt to that point, and
nothing else
Alfred Binet
1857 - 1911

7. Intelligence is not fixed (Binet, 1909)
‘Some recent philosophers
have given their moral approval
to the deplorable verdict that
an individual’s intelligence is a
fixed quantity, one which
cannot be augmented. We
must protest and act against
this brutal pessimism … it has
no foundation whatsoever.’
Alfred Binet
1857 - 1911

9. Number of words heard by children
A child in a welfare-dependent family hears on average
616 words an hour 500
A child in a working-class home hears on average 1,251
words an hour 700
A child in a professional home hears on average 2,153
words an hour 1100
Number of words spoken by the time children are 3
Hart &Risley, 1995

10. By the time they start school
Some children
start school
knowing 6,000
words.
Others, just
500 words.
Source: BBC 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/
magazine/8013859.stm

11. We all have beliefs about intelligence & talents
People who believe
intelligence comes
mainly from nature have
a ‘fixed’ mindset
People who believe
intelligence comes
mainly from nurture
have a ‘growth’ mindset
Professor Carol Dweck, Stanford

12. A better example of Lifelong Learning?