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19 months and three lock downs later, we are still getting used to life during a pandemic. We, Western Australians consider ourselves very lucky indeed, as we can ‘live our lives as ‘normal’ with minimum restrictions. Yet there is a clear sense of being ‘locked in’ in our state, cut out from the other five states and two territories and the world. So how do we get on, how can we continue to thrive with the children under our care in when everything and everyone seems beyond reach? The answer was following routine, observe the routine, and play with the routine. The video: A day in a life of a childcare worker and the children emphasize the celebration of little moments and appreciating the suddenness of observing things that we tend to overlook during the busy time.

Back in March when Covid19 first joined us, we begun having many conversations with the Sparkles children. We asked them what their thoughts were on ‘The Bad Bug’ and how did the pandemic affect them.

Part of the Creative Bravery Festival 2021. During Creative Bravery Festival 2020 I wondered about the merits of winging it and asked if we could add winging it to our toolbox of skills/experience/knowledge. My call for action was for us to try and: • Wing it. Wing it with intention. • Trust ourselves (our intuition, our skills & knowledge) • Notice what happens (how the people around us react and how we feel.) • Reflect on what happened (what role does control play?) • Share our experiences • Practise During this meeting we talk about what happened when we tried winging.

Featured on the Brave Times: The first video on demand platform dedicated to the future of our planet. This ever-growing collection of documentaries and shorts will keep you up to date on our world.

This session was recorded on 25 September 2020.

We have had the industrial Revolution, Electric Revolution, Tech and Data Revolution. Now we are entering the Connected Intelligence Revolution. We will start by looking at real world examples and cases studies from brands and businesses where this is already happening and how these might apply to our schools and education.

People with disabilities form about 20% of the population but are shown in <2% of the images we see, and these are far from real. Verizon Media, Getty Images and the National Disability Leadership Alliance have partnered to create The Disability Collection, a collection of stock images that break stereotypes and show people with disabilities in everyday life. Empowering the industry to get real about disability representation with stock photos that can be licensed and used by anyone in the world.

Civic Digits Theatre Company

Who knows what about you online? What are you agreeing to when downloading an app? Who has access to your secrets? And most importantly, how do you stay safe and sane in this digital age where friendships and relationships are often counted in likes and expressed in emojis.

The Big Data Show is a ground-breaking, immersive theatre experience using performance, gaming and digital magic, which tells that story, and explores the importance of cybersecurity in today’s digital world.

@civicdigitstheatrecompany #TheBigDataShow

Many misconceptions are surrounding the topic of creativity, making it seem like only selected few can be called creative and can come up with great ideas. In these two lessons, you will discover none of it's true, and that by following some simple techniques you can let your mind run free to be spontaneously creative at any given moment.

Watch this short video which is an introduction into creative storytelling and problem solving.Pupils will gain an understanding of writing a fun, creative narrative that helps overcome a problem. Using LEGO® City as the setting and its Minifigure citizens as characters, pupils can invent imaginative solutions to a choice of missions, then present this as an engaging short story that helps Rebuild the World.

The resources available in this Hub are to support teacher professionalism and professional learning and are not learning and teaching resources for the classroom.

To shift negative public perceptions of the homeless and raise donations, Getty Images partnered with fiftyfifty (a street magazine sold by the homeless) and worked with their homeless vendors as stock photo models. In the photos, the homeless were portrayed as common people in the most in-demand life and work scenarios on Getty Images. All photo profits go to fiftyfifty to house the homeless.

Scotland has always had Interdisciplinary learning (IDL) as a component part of the curriculum offer – it sits as one of the four contexts.

Over session 2019/20, Education Scotland has worked with https://notosh.com/, practitioners and partners using a design-thinking process to understand how we can realise our ambitions for IDL.

This website has resources, articles, and case studies.

Digital voice assistants have two options; male & female. Some people don’t identify as either so may want their voice assistant to mirror that identity. Third gender options are being recognized across the globe but technology is stuck in the past. Copenhagen Pride is launching Q, the world’s first genderless voice for voice AI. Created for a future where we are no longer defined by gender.

Escape rooms have become popular with millennials. One thing millennials can’t escape is living with their parents. The Prudential Escape Room was an experience that let people live out 30 years of financial challenges in 30 minutes, starting off trapped in their parent’s basement. Through various challenges, the millennial-focused experience immersed players in a series of life stages and financial situations. All the while, a clock was counting up in years, and the quicker they escaped, the younger they retired.

A creative collaboration sparked by Creative Bravery campfire conversations, #VirtualArtClub29 is a day for us all to explore our own creativity.  The theme will be launched at 09:00 through Zoom and Twitter, where you go next is totally up to you!  Art, music, poetry, dance, construction, design, sculpture…your style; your choice.

Watch the challenge video below.

One in five students have suicidal thoughts, most aren’t seeking expert help. Vice UK wanted to help. It hijacked a 24-hour YT live stream where students watched an animated loop of a girl studying, but also shared feelings of stress, depression and loneliness. After 809 days, Study Girl stopped studying and considered taking her life. After wrestling with her decision, she chooses to live and seek help. The video achieved 2m views and 19% of viewers clicked through to helplines, meaning one in five reached out to get expert help.

Salvesen Mindroom Centre is a Scottish charity dedicated to supporting, informing and empowering all those living with learning difficulties. When we began our charitable work in 2000, we identified that there are at least five children with some form of learning difficulty in every school class in Scotland and across the UK.

An interesting take on high rise by JG Ballard: the higher you live, the higher up you are in society

"Listen" is a Hollywood movie and a powerful scholastic tool. We’ve designed a film depicting critical issues with engaging programming to create resources that actually work. “If you see Listen, it will change your life. If you tell everyone you know to see it, it will change the world.”

Today's young people will be living on Earth for longer than anyone else, but as the generation that will feel the impact of climate change the most, your voices and opinions are rarely heard or listened to. We want to give you a platform to show policymakers during Climate Change Conference (COP26) that your voices matter and must be listened to.

In this series of lessons, pupils will learn how to push their ideas and come up with brave solutions to modern-day problems. Through examples of award-winning creative campaigns and helpful tutorials from our partners, the students will gain an understanding of what it takes to be creatively brave and how to develop their thinking to come up with original ideas that can change our human behaviour for the better.

Playing through the greenery and litter of a mini forest's undergrowth for just one month may be enough to change a child's immune system, according to a small new experiment.

"Over the last few months New Practice have been reflecting on the engagement process, from large public consultation events through to stakeholder interviews. On the back of these reflections, we are reaching out to different organisations that we think practice in an exemplary way to discuss engagement through a series of broader themes, the output of each will be collated into a webspace to be publicly accessed. This is Potluck."

Art forms from Christianity and Islam brought together to show how there's more that unites us than sets us apart.

A key part of creativity is being able to see things differently from normal. In the first of two lessons you will use the power of imagination to transform simple scribbles into different things. This leads on to Lesson 2 where the same idea is applied to transform everyday objects. It focuses on ideas generation.

Project Body Hair is a celebration of female body hair. Women’s razor brands don't often acknowledge female body hair. Ads show women "shaving" smooth, airbrushed legs. Everyone has short stubble or long strands. What you do with your hair is up to you. By reminding women that shaving is a choice we received 3.3+ billion earned media impressions across 23 countries, 21+ million views & over 1.3 million shares & comments.

Wee Inventors is a part of Little Inventors initiative formed by a team of students from Edinburgh Napier University. Find out more at the website:

There are 32 million deaf children globally. Many struggle to read because they can’t learn letters phonetically. StorySign helps change that and show the power of Huawei’s smartphone AI. StorySign, a free app which changes words into sign language, helps deaf children and their parents read and sign together. Using the most advanced signing avatar ever designed, supported by 11 deaf charities, and available in 12 sign languages.

Less than 11% of stories in US history textbooks are devoted to women, which means children aren’t seeing the full picture. Lessons in Herstory tackles the power imbalance between men & women in society by getting to the root of the problem: how we're conditioned as kids in school. By using AR technology, the stories of women in history that have been previously left out can be highlighted.

Cyberbullying is a huge issue that needs to be talked about. Through the campaign ‘Trolling is Ugly’, we wanted to show the effect that digital abuse can have on young people. Over 24 hours, we manipulated influencer Chessie King’s appearance in real time in response to real negative comments in a live Instagram story, culminating in a shockingly distorted final image. We showed the internet that ‘Trolling Is Ugly’, not the victims.

Disclaimer: This video contains some swearing.

Machado de Assis, a writer, was a victim of racism for more than one century. His image was whitened so he could be accepted by the white elite during the 19th century. Grey Brazil and Zumbi dos Palmares University took a huge step to change that particular problem and to start a wave against racism. A campaign was run to recreate his image as it should be.

Dealing with something as complex as climate change can feel overwhelming.  It makes you want to retreat into your cave and close the curtains. This online newspaper invites you to pull back those curtains and be creatively brave.  The paper is more than just learning, it’s about taking action, brave action, not just protest, but imagining and creating new ideas, moving forward in new (uncertain) directions (not against), changing mind sets, changing the way we live, how we behave. If we are able to do this, we can move beyond our caves to create future human habitats.

A pan-African tourism campaign for Black & Abroad that turns the racial slur “Go back to Africa” into an uplifting call to action.

Positive thinking is great: its effects are well documented, and it really helps us get things done. Negativity gets a bad rep. However, used in the right way, a little negative thinking can help us identify problems that our creativity and positive thinking can help us solve. In this lesson, we will get pupils to think about how you can apply critical thinking to develop new and innovative ideas.

Source: Learning for Sustainability Scotland

Understanding the big issues that shape our world has never been more important. Health and wellbeing, climate change, gender equality, and how to live sustainably affect – and connect – us all.

Connecting Classrooms through Global Learning supports schools across the globe to collaborate on and learn about these big issues.

It helps teachers and pupils to enhance and develop the confidence, skills, knowledge, values and attitudes they need to thrive in an increasingly interconnected world and create positive change as part of a whole-setting approach to Learning for Sustainability.

in The New York Times: to combat the coronavirus, schools across America moved students outdoors. Here's a look at four new learning environments

Join Briana Pegado – Executive Director of Creative Edinburgh, to explore bravery in creative contexts that means taking risks and having uncomfortable conversations.

Off The Page is honored to partner with TYA/USA, The Alliance Theatre, and Playscripts to officially release the script and video recording of ALL AMERICAN BOYS (based on the book by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely) as a resource to confront systemic racism, police brutality, and its impact on young people across this country. The video and free access to the digital script are available here.

Americans are borrowing money without totally understanding how loans work and how loan terms are manipulated. Enter Shady Sam, a browser game for teens, but something everyone should play. It teaches the tricks of loan terms by having you play as a shady lender. The game's goal: issue loans that make your company the most money and rip-off unsuspecting borrowers, teaching kids to never be ripped off by a lender in real life.

What does it mean to be brave in the face of the climate crisis?

"Some campaigns take years, even decades to achieve change. Not for Skye Neville, a 10-year-old from a Welsh seaside town who in November became outraged at the cheap plastic toys that came attached to her favourite magazines." - the Guardian

Discover the many ways social justice and environmentalism intersect with the topics and communities you are most passionate about, and spend some time looking through others that you’re keen to learn more on.

There’s a secret hidden in almost every digital image and the website you’ve seen. That is Lena, Miss November 1972, or Tech’s Original Sin. In the 70s, guys at the University of Southern California used Lena’s centrefold to test their image-processing algorithms. This research laid the groundwork for the JPEG. Today, with complete indifference to women, Lena remains the most-used test image. Losing Lena campaigns for the removal of the Lena image to create a more equitable future for women in tech.

Despite the growing excitement for Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics, the majority of the Japanese public remain uninformed about para-sports because they struggle to gain mainstream media coverage. The 'Para Pingpong Table' replicates the world of para-athletes and serves as an intuitive communication tool to inform about the athletes’ unique challenges and triumphs, adding greater depth for spectators to enjoy the sport.

Suicide is the second-leading cause of death in young adults. Teens want to support their friends but find talking about mental health to be too awkward. We need to remove the awkwardness. ‘Seize the Awkward’ was created to transform an awkward moment, something teens avoid into an opportunity and giving them the tools to ask a friend how they’re feeling.

Local people, staff and students interested in supporting the wellbeing of young people in education through a trauma informed approach.

A live challenge by Daydream Believers for UN Climate Change Conference of Parties (COP26): Imagine and create a space where communities, nature and business can flourish together. Created in collaboration with LEGO® Group and Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

Creativity is increasingly recognised as an essential higher order skill and a vital element in the delivery of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence. The Creativity Portal is a one-stop shop for teachers, community learning leaders and educators across lifelong learning.

It brings together creative online teaching tools, CPD resources, inspiration, and examples of next and best practice allowing you to make connections and use your creative thinking skills.

The Creativity Portal is a key element of Scotland’s Creative Learning Plan and the strong partnership that exists between Creative Scotland and Education Scotland.

This session was recorded on 23 September.

Agora is a secondary school without schoolbooks, classes, or timetables. Started 6 years ago in Roermond The Netherlands. Please join us for an introduction film, followed by a Q&A with some of the young people from the Agora school.

Being brave is not easy. It should be challenging and complex. We have invited some brave teachers and school leaders to lead a Bonfire conversation around what it means to be brave within the current education system. These educators will offer their unique perspectives before we open the conversation up to those attending.

Be inspired by a generation of young global changemakers who have been working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals. These young people took part in our GSL Global Goals competition where they were challenged to follow their passions and deliver a social action project in support of a Global Goal. The 17 Days of Action videos showcase the journeys of just some of our GSL Global Goals project teams, as they take real action to make the world a brighter more sustainable place for all.Learn about the goals and see the impact that is being created through the eyes of young socially conscious leaders who are leading the change.

“Our award-winning Big Ideas Programme is an annual enrichment programme that focuses on sustainability and combines STEM learning and STEM activities with enterprise and employability skills.”

Neuroscientist David Eagleman taps into the creative process of various innovators while exploring brain-bending, risk-taking ways to spark creativity.

This session was recorded on 22 September 2020.

Join Dr Anne Bamford, Strategic and Education Skills Director at City of London Corporation in this session that focuses on the value of ‘piloting’ ideas in schools to bring about change.

Featured on the Brave Times: This short claymation from Greenpeace may look fun and friendly but it shares an urgent message about the pollution in our oceans.

Featured on the Brave Times: How can we be sure a book will last to see future generations? Make it from plastic of course, it will be around much longer than us.

This session was recorded on 24 September 2020.

Remake Learning convened educators, advocates, and stakeholders to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of learning post-pandemic. Gregg is the founder and co-chair of Remake Learning.

Featured on the Brave Times: Jeremy Vine explores what makes us human in this landmark BBC Radio 2 series.Guests deliver their thoughts on the essence of human existence, reflecting on their own lives.

This session was recorded on 24 September 2020.

Tune into this bonfire session to learn about AIME’s reimagining of education globally since 2005, using the 3 most critical skills of our time – imagination, mentoring & principles of organising change.

We have heard of ‘greenwashing’ but could ‘Youth Washing’ be the new sustainable ploy from big companies?

In this session, Stephen Reid will explore the landscape of education through the lens of game-based learning and in particular, Minecraft. From curriculum toy boxes that bring Pompeii, the Vikings and WWI to life, to mathematics in a zombie apocalypse, a digital field trip to meet Claude Monet, and life as a refugee.

Brilliant video on circular economy from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation featured on the Brave Times

There's a world of opportunity to re-think and re-design the way we make stuff.

'Re-Thinking Progress' explores how through a change in perspective we can re-design the way our economy works - designing products that can be 'made to be made again' and powering the system with renewable energy. It questions whether with creativity and innovation we can build a restorative economy.

“I’m Rob Hopkins, author of ‘From What Is to What If’ and champion of the collective imagination. Join me on this exploration of how we might rebuild our shared imagination and why it is so vital that we do so.”

Author Peter Gamwell, a former teacher and superintendent who has spent more than three decades studying creativity, working closely with such renowned creativity experts as Sir Ken Robinson, has a fresh perspective on how to nurture creativity, innovation, leadership and engagement in education. This Q&A session allows you to ask Peter questions about his experiences and thoughts on creativity in education.

An article displayed on The Brave Times.

What is Bravery? What do these stories have in common?

This session was recorded on 25 September 2020.

One of the original Brave Team Ve Dewey will be joined by John S. Couch for a fireside chat. Within this fireside chat John and Vanessa will explore creativity and the art of creative rebellion and how more than ever we must embrace creativity from education to one’s every-day life.

A hard hitting short film about the reality of the transition from fossil fuels in the oil industry and how it can have a detrimental effect on it's workers well-being. How can we make a smoother transition to renewable energy that will benefit our communities and workforce's?