Danielle O'Donovan's Stream of Research

One of the main ways The Happy Museum proposes to achieve this will sound familiar to readers of this blog with some experience with social media. They propose using the Five Ways to Well-being, namely: Connect, be active, take notice, keep learning and give.

“The best way to use digital media to teach them to see history as we see it is to create learning opportunities that make it possible for our students to do history – to practice it – to help them make history, using their own creative impulses, rather than simply giving us what they hope is the correct answer to a question we have posed.”

"They quit looking to me for the answer and began to engage in academic, intellectual discourse with one another. I was absolutely stunned. It's difficult, because there is some real zing in being the star of the show. You are the final word on everything. But you have to learn to push the ball down the hill and get out of the way."

Some of the most productive, and highly professional, people I know work relatively short days and even seem to spend an awful lot of time in contemplation: reading, thinking, staring into space. As one eminent academic said to me, puzzled at so much manic activity in modern living: "I have never worked a 15-hour day in my life." Melissa Ben

To Assess Is One Thing: To Understand Is Quite Another. Professor Maurice Holt.

Eventually, the measure of student performance will be the demonstrated ability to use personal strengths to move gracefully through a connected world.