HERE WE ARE at the end of our first year! I remember the intense curiosity I once felt wondering what it would feel like to write that line. As the term wraps up, we can look back at so many wonderful explorations and experiences and say we lived deeply and learned much. We know a thing or two now about moving about the world; about buying our daily bread, whether...
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Saying goodbye to Stockholm and the friends we made there was the most important thing we did, as hard as it was; for it is the leaving of one place and the going to another that defines THINK Global School. TGS is like the old wandering scholar of folklore with his little bag of books--or, in our case, iPhone, iPad and MacBook--over his shoulder: peripatetic. Aristotle said we are what...
Read MoreBy Brad Ovenell-Carter, Assistant Head of School At THINK Global School we learn not about the world; we learn in the world. And part of that world is digital. I say “part of” because making the usual distinction between the so-called real and virtual worlds is misleading. It misleads us to thinking that the two are somehow different and that in turn leads us to acting differently ourselves and to...
Read MoreTHINK Global School gave me an iPad to play with two weeks ago, which was "real sweet" as one of my students said because it made us one of the first on our block with the newest cool tool. A technological revolution comes comes to the classroom It didn't take long to see that the iPad is not about the apps. They are great, gorgeous even. Developers are taking full...
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