AAIBS 2009 Conference Notes

The blog posts below dated April 20 are my responses to some of the sessions I attended at the Association of Australasian International Baccalaureate Schools Conference, held at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia over April 17 to 19th. For a while now I’ve found that making notes in sessions as a kind of draft [...]

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Human Ingenuity: An Overview of IB Thinking

This presentation from the AAIB 2009 Conference was from Malcolm Nicolson – Head of MYP (Cardiff) He talked about the 1986 split into IB and IGSCE? and the history of the IB and how the various sections had developed individually and how the different programs talked about inspiration and ingenuity. He acknowledged that the IB [...]

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Reframing Schooling for Today’s World (Greg Whitby)

‘It’s all about the cloud: anytime, anywhere’ Whitby was the first keynote of the AAIBS 2009 Conference. After a brief attempt at getting his audience to do the chicken dance, he began by talking about something of the bad press that education gets; that we somehow need a ‘revolution’ to make schools right. (Or politicians [...]

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Human Ingenuity – Pedagogy for the 21st Century

I’m in Adelaide this weekend at the AAIBS (IB) 2009 Conference with the ambitious agenda of ‘Human ingenuity; Pedagogy for the 21st Century. But it’s begun well and I’ll add some more details notes and responses to the sessions when I find a powerpoint and a hotel that doesn’t charge $55 for internet access. The [...]

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