Issue #1, July 2008

“Learning is like Velcro. An unfiltered fact is not a complete fastener. Only one side of the learning is made up of facts, the other consists of stories - that is ideas and images.”

Richard Saul Wurman
Author of Information Anxiety 2

project DI
	Selective School On the back of specialist secondary school projects in Adelaide and Perth, the Woods Bagot Education & Science team has been selected as architects for a new Selective Secondary School in Melbourne. The school on Monash University’s Berwick site will cater for about 850 high-achieving students from the south-eastern suburbs.  Learning specialist Professor Kenn Fisher will work on the Victorian Government project with Global Sector Leader Mark Kelly, Sarah Ball, Kimberly Pannan and others.
PUBLIC DI
	The New Learning Environment: Hybrid Designs for Hybrid Learning A Woods Bagot PUBLIC research paper by Education Pedagogy Specialist Professor Kenn Fisher.
cool stuff
	Sir Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity? Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining (and profoundly moving) case for creating an education system that nurtures creativity, rather than undermining it. Podcast.
	Futurelab Report - Towards new learning networks What should the educational landscape of the future look like? What types of institutions, spaces and places for learning should we see develop? Where, and with whom, should learning happen? Full FutureLab Report.