International Conference on Thinking (ICOT)

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Generative AI unleashes human creativity.

The tone-deaf can create music.
The dyslexic can write beautiful prose.
The colour blind can paint like Picasso.

-Mathias Sundin

[International Conference on Thinking (ICOT) @icot_thinking]

Money is a way to communicate and track.

- Chris Pollard

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The most important thing a leader can do is model that it's okay to make mistakes.

- Cameron Paterson

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Everybody likes to remember things the way they would like them to be, not the way they were.

-Heather Morris

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With the media bashing teachers all the time we have to elevate the idea of being a professional.

- Daniel Birch

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On average people waste 25% of the food they buy. This wastes the resources it took to produce the food as well as the actual food.

-Katie Flannigan

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Long before children talk, they read and make sense of the world.

- Angela Salmon on the power of storytelling in learning

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3 in 4 young people agree mental health is a problem for their generation…

-Mary-Anne Murphy

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What type of thinking do you want to make routine for your students?

What are you doing that doesn’t fit with your why, and what are you not doing to fit with your why?

- Nigel Coutts

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In schools we teach students to find existing answers to existing questions.

We need to teach kids to be problem finders and problem solvers.

-Yong Zhao

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If you spend 10 thousand hours on something you’re bad at, you can become good.

But if you spend 10 thousand hours on something you’re good at, you can become great.

-Yong Zhao

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We live in totally inefficient ways of working in almost every organisation, but no one wants to speak truth into practice.

-John Edwards

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Jonathan Levy on conditions for children’s participation:
- Participation vs. Consultation
- Co-construction
- Time: Adult professionals vs. Children & Youth
- Process:
a Choice
b Research
c Presentation

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You can contribute really powerfully by listening and only speaking when you need to.

-Alex Saundry

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It's time for global cooperation to combat global existential risk.

-Ali Sumner

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Kids are smarter than adults, they know that errors are a part of learning.

- Aixa Perez-Prado

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Look out for these signs of greenwashing:
⁃Vague buzzwords
⁃Selective disclosure
⁃Misleading symbols
⁃Outright lies
⁃Technology defeats

- Lina Le & Scott Horsnell

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It is easier to get into prison as an Aboriginal man than it is to finish year 12.

We are a very privileged country, but not everyone in it is privileged…

-Jeremy Donovan

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After imposed change on First Nations people since colonisation, now it’s about truth-telling and self-determination.

-Dr. Lois Peeler AM

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I want to do less of the menial and mundane and more of the meaningful and humane, and technology helps me do that…

- Anders Sörman-Nilsson