If you are wanting to stimulate conversation with staff, parents, caregivers, whanau, students or community here are some video clips and websites that may be useful. For more information regarding websites and blogs that are focussed on future trends go to www.thinkbeyond.co.nz Check on the education or blog tabs to find direct links to a wide range of sites. If you know of others add them to this wiki so others can use them too.

Here are some useful starters:

No Future Left Behind
This presentation was prepared by students of middle school years. It poses questions and challenges teachers to come on the journey...



Vision of K-12 Students Today
This presentation by primary age students challenges teachers to engage them.
It can be found on Teacher Tube - click on the link below and download it:
http://www.teachertube.com/view_video.php?viewkey=d1296214afd7cc367045


Vision of Students Today Secondary/College
This shows the use of Googledocs to create a vision, which is then produced in video format.





Shift Happens Powerpoint
This powerpoint was developed by a secondary school teacher for use in his own school


Sir Ken Robinson - Do Schools Kill Creativity?
This TEDtalk provides some useful food for thought. I suggest you preview it and only show a few minutes of the video to illustrate the point you want to make or the discussion you want to provoke. Consider joining TED for ongoing stimulating video clips across a range of ideas and innovations from an inspiring group of thiners and doers from around the globe TED