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Innovation Excellence | Have You Considered the Three Horizon Approach?
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10 Real-World BYOD Classrooms (And Whether It’s Worked Or Not) | Edudemic
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What Every CEO Can Learn From The Olympics’ Wacky Opening Ceremony | Fast Company
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Rethinking Higher Education | The Nantucket Project | Big Think
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Demonstrations of Learning for 21st-Century Schools
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- character (self-discipline, empathy, integrity, resilience, and courage);
- creativity and entrepreneurial spirit;
- real-world problem-solving (filtering, analysis, and synthesis);
- public speaking/communications;
- teaming; and
- leadership.
Conflated from these six resources are the following:
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“current scholarship on the skills and values that will be necessary for students to succeed and prosper in these turbulent and ever-changing times. All five of the sources cited were in extraordinary agreement about the six basic skills and values that will be expected and rewarded in this century. “
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demonstrate the public purpose of private education. We will continue to do so through meaningful service learning — creating not just momentary good, but also the educational and cultural reinforcement of inculcating the habit of giving and serving.
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Singapore Ministry of Education website indicates that “Thinking Schools will be learning organizations in every sense, constantly challenging assumptions, and seeking better ways of doing things through participation, creativity, and innovation…. A Learning Nation envisions a national culture and social environment that promotes lifelong learning in our people. The capacity of the Singaporeans to continually learn, both for professional development and for personal enrichment, will determine our collective tolerance for change.”
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I hope never to read a vision statement that promises to maintain rather than improve
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Mission and vision may indicate improvement and innovation, but do daily practices and protocols?
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we need a system that “focuses on what students learn, rather than on what they are taught, and sets common standards for what they must learn, rather than common amounts of time for them to learn those things.”
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transformers who will invent an entirely new system with teachers as diagnosticians and coaches.
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if we could agree on what well-educated students should be able to do, teachers, schools, and systems could then “backward design” the means to those ends. The “essential demonstrations” that follow could be gathered in a student’s electronic portfolio that follows him or her through the various stages of education, documenting and preserving stages of learning and presenting in ways far more comprehensively than standardized testing a student’s preparedness for the next level of schooling. What we believe is that demonstrations of learning marry skills with content, develop the multiple intelligences, connect thought with action, and exemplify the skills and values for the 21st century that students will need from schools and colleges.
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At your school or college, what is your list of 10 Demonstrations of Learning that should be the exit ticket indicating the school’s work is done, validating the student readiness for the next stage of schooling or life?
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Is Khan Academy and Online Learning a Threat to Formal Schooling? « Center for Teaching
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Filling The Instructional Hole in our Standards Conversation | PRINCIPALLY SPEAKING
Filling The Instructional Hole in our Standards Conversation http://t.co/xZgPARwA via @ideaguy42 < Love #s 4, 7, 8, 10, & 11!
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Between the By-Road and the Main Road: Cue the Rhizome: A Post-Better World
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The Innovative Educator: BYOD in the 21st Century – Video Quickie
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