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Empower Your Child to Lead: The Key to Unlocking Innovation
Recently, I had an unforgettable conversation with a remarkable teacher from Nigeria named Amazu. He reached out after attending one of...
Ortal Green
Nov 30, 20228 min read
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Are you still wasting your time and money on getting a degree?
Once upon a time, when I was a young woman, ready to join the workforce, I decided I wanted to work in IT. Back then, the key to getting...
Ortal Green
Oct 28, 20222 min read
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Want to Be Smarter? Here Are 8 Hacks to Supercharge You and Your Child's Mind
How Do You Feel About Weirdos? Do you confidently embrace your quirks, or do you keep them hidden? The ultimate brain games Well, get...
Ortal Green
Oct 18, 20225 min read
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What King Charles can teach you about education
How do you feel about the British Royal family? They are on the news all the time. More often than not, for all the wrong reasons. And...
Ortal Green
Oct 5, 20224 min read
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A star in Madagascar
Do you know anyone from Madagascar? I met Toky through Facebook right before I published my book “Think Unique – your comprehensive guide...
Ortal Green
Jun 8, 20222 min read
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The best kept secret about Apple
Are you waiting for an apple to fall on your head? I met Phil Roberts a few months back and enjoyed meeting a school principal who is...
Ortal Green
May 27, 20222 min read
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Glittering Minds at Oxford University
This week, Edithvale primary school, who is working with Glittering Minds for a few years now, has presented one of their Design Thinking...
Ortal Green
Nov 24, 20212 min read
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Dare to think differently?
Dare to think differently? If not, stop reading right now. To say the last two years were challenging is an understatement. Each one of...
Ortal Green
Oct 28, 20211 min read
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children understand their parents
Imagine you are telling your child to stop playing electronic games and the response you get is – I know you are not being mean now. I...
Ortal Green
May 27, 20211 min read
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Creating tomorrow's innovators
If you ask five-year old children what is Design Thinking, what would they say? This week, I had the pleasure of attending a foundation...
Ortal Green
May 20, 20211 min read
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Growing with feedback
Children often see feedback as a personal attack. It's to be expected, as us adults often feel the same. But feedback is how we get...
Ortal Green
Mar 4, 20211 min read
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The future is here-are you ready?
As the CEO of Glittering Minds I was invited to talk on the Value Addition Global Show on the Future Of Work. It is an important and...
Ortal Green
Jan 19, 20211 min read
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What is the purpose of schools?
Do you know what is the purpose of schools in Australia? If you answered "No", you are not alone... All the parents I asked about it, had...
Ortal Green
Jul 7, 20201 min read
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Opportunity for transformation
COVID-19 hit our education system like a storm. It challenged how students learn, how teachers teach, the level of parents’ involvement...
Ortal Green
Jul 3, 20201 min read
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Helping you Develop your creative thinking
What is creativity? When we start working with primary school students on developing their creative thinking, we ask them – what is...
Ortal Green
Mar 25, 20201 min read
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Parliamentary Secretary for Schools Visits Glittering Minds
Last week we had the pleasure of hosting Victoria’s Parliamentary Secretary for Schools, Mr. Tim Richardson, at one of Glittering Minds...
Ortal Green
Mar 13, 20201 min read
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7 years old perform data synthesis
Have you ever seen children as young as 7 years old performing data synthesis? Last week, we facilitated data synthesis sessions with...
Ortal Green
Mar 5, 20201 min read
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empathy at the heart of children
At Glittering Minds, it is important for us to measure the impact of our Human Centred Design for kids program on the students and...
Ortal Green
Oct 5, 20191 min read
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Human Centred design from a child's perspective
What do you think children will answer when asked what is Human Centred Design? Here are some answers from year 4 students – "A...
Ortal Green
Sep 24, 20191 min read
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Learning is child play
At Glittering Minds we believe children learn best by doing, and we don’t stop there. Children learn better when they learn in a highly...
Ortal Green
Sep 10, 20191 min read
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