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Enquiring Minds
Microsoft partnered with Futurelab in 2005 to launch the Enquiring Minds programme, in which Futurelab researchers, in collaboration with teachers from two secondary schools, have developed a new approach to teaching and learning that takes students’ ideas, interests and experiences as its starting point, and provides them with more responsibility for the direction and content of their learning.
We see the real objectives of Enquiring Minds as nurturing independent, creative thinkers and life long learners in a technology rich world. This approach allows children not only to be recipients of knowledge, but to challenge and create their own knowledge, and develop the skills that will better prepare them for life and work in the 21st Century.
The Exploratree resource has been developed by Futurelab and emerged out of their work on the Enquiring Minds project. It provides a series of ready-made interactive ‘thinking guides’ or ‘frameworks’ which are great for supporting student-led enquiry projects and research by helping to shape and focus ideas, and providing frameworks for working through an issue, topic or question.
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