Conversations

Fri, Mar 2, 2007; by Bill Coppinger.

Hello and welcome to the Central Ranges LLEN's occasional podcast series called "CONVERSATIONS".

In this series we consider the challenges in providing high quality and individually responsive educational outcomes for young people beginning to make the transition from school to work or further education.

We consider local, national and international issues, using the resources of many local and international educators to provide new and unique insights into teaching, learning and the challenges facing students, parents, communities, employers and policy makers.

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C O N V E R S A T I O N S

Release: Wednesday, November 19th , 2008 - LM Bytes 2008 - Regional Network Leaders and School Development

In today's episode we provide the full replay of the podcast "LM BYTES" made by Jenny Ashby, interviewing the Director of the Loddon Mallee Region Department of Education and Early Childhood Development Mr. Ron Lake.

Ron Lake is the Regional Director of the Loddon Mallee Region. The region covers approximately 30% of the entire state of Victoria and has approximately 44,000 students attending 170 government schools.

Ron introduces the new Regional Network Leaders and speaks about performance development and the professional development days at the beginning of 2009.

 

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Release: Friday, October 11, 2007 - Future Minds Forum

Professor Howard Gardner was the guest of the Board of the Central Ranges Local Learning and Employment Network for two days during July of 2007 at our Future Minds Forum. He contributed to both an open public forum attended by almost 400 people on Friday July 6th as well as contributing to a private luncheon on Saturday July 7th, hosted by our network for the benefit of local community and educational leaders across the Hume and Loddon Mallee regions in Victoria.

The title of our forum , "Future Minds", was inspired by Dr. Gardner's latest Book, Five Minds for the Future, which was recently released by Harvard Business School Press.

Professor Gardner defines the cognitive abilities that will command a premium in the future... the Five Minds for the Future:

• the disciplinary mind
• the synthesizing mind
• the creating mind
• the respectful mind
• the ethical mind

Armed with these well-honed capacities, a person will be equipped to deal with what is expected in the future - as well as what cannot be anticipated. Without these “minds” individuals will be at the mercy of forces they can’t understand - overwhelmed by information, unable to succeed in the workplace and incapable of making judicious decisions about personal and professional matters. [Howard Gardner]

We have released the full presentation as a podcast that includes a hour presentation and 30 minutes of questions. [Total running time 1hr 36min]

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Release: Friday, March 2, 2007 - Changing Minds

On April 8th 2004, the American National Public Radio Network interviewed Professor Howard Gardner on the show, Talk of the Nation.

In his book, Changing Minds, Howard Gardner examines how politicians, creative artists, business leaders, teachers and prospective dates go about the business of changing deeply held opinions -- what works, what doesn't, and why.

[Source: NPR]

From the book, Gardner's Seven Levers of Mind Change:

1. Reason
2. Research
3. Resonance
4. Representational Rediscriptions
5. Resources and Rewards
6. Real World Events
7. Resistances

We have established a short podcast that includes the 35 Minute interview.

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