May 11 2007
Extreme Joined Up Learning
At the Extreme Learning meeting on Thursday evening there was one of those moments where everything suddenly seems to mesh. My fellow school librarians and I have been trying to come up with ways to help students located all over East Lothian to improve their research skills. Don used examples of extreme learning projects from Macmerry Primary. Also at the meeting a teacher from Ormiston Primary who has several Extreme Learners in school, a teacher and the school librarian from Ross High. By the end of the meeting these four had plans in hand to pilot some of the ideas for progressing EL and the offer of a venue from East Lothian Library Service for the group to meet. Students from each of the schools will be given the opportunity to work together to design the next stage for Extreme Learning - variously described as simple, flexible and no teacher required, using a technique called agile software development.