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How the Internet is Shaping Our “Global Brain” – Tiffany Shlain – Harvard Business Review
Business in the 21st century needs more focus on outcomes than outputs. We all can see where focusing on outputs got us: In education we’ve focused on test results (outputs) and ended up with some high-scoring kids who don’t know how to apply what they’ve learned to the world at large (outcome), like how the reasons leading to the American Revolution are similar to those that led to the Arab Spring.
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Business in the 21st century needs more focus on outcomes than outputs. We all can see where focusing on outputs got us: In education we’ve focused on test results (outputs) and ended up with some high-scoring kids who don’t know how to apply what they’ve learned to the world at large (outcome), like how the reasons leading to the American Revolution are similar to those that led to the Arab Spring.
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Janine Shepherd: A broken body isn’t a broken person | Video on TED.com
Beautiful talk about choice, attitude, and the spirit to become. Quotes Lao Tzu – “When you give up who you are, you become who you might be.”
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Fried Technology: What’s the Difference Between “Doing Projects” and “Project Based Learning”?
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Between the By-Road and the Main Road: The Necessity of Wonder: Rethinking Argument
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Dr. W. Edwards Deming and Profound Knowledge – Part 1 | BPI Consulting
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Inscribed upon my wrist: Emphasizing effort to empower learning SmartBlogs
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My wrist one-liner is a good mantra for our schools: Give the effort. Perhaps we should have it inscribed on student desks or chiseled into classroom walls. Why? Because more than anything else, effort influences learning, and authentic learning involves effort. (In fact, students who rarely struggle are probably learning little!)
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STEM Students Must Be Taught to Fail – US News and World Report
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Zeitgeist 2012: Connecting the Outer & Inner Worlds
In his talk, Robinson gave us a unique perspective of two distinct worlds in which all humans are members; the outer world and the inner world. Early in his presentation, he observes that our education systems are failing to keep pace with developments in the external world, “which are moving with a tremendous speed and depth of change.” And, he adds, education systems “have never been good at connecting with our inner world.”
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The End of Education As We Know It | design mind
“Using online media, adventurous educators are engaging students and teachers in fresh ways.” Last paragraph includes a quote from Bloom about power of tutoring. Technology is leading to such scalable possibilities.
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As he noted in his TEDGlobal talk, Schocken believes that the traditional grading system is “degrading”—and he’d rather talk about a more positive approach to teaching that he calls “upgrading.”
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“It’s surprising we are still teaching students the same way we [have] for the past 300 years,” Koller said.
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“The data … can really open up new windows to understanding new learning,” Koller noted.
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Skeptics may argue that the resources, technical skills, and university networks required to participate in the current education revolution are available only to well-connected computer science professors such as Schocken and Koller. But initiatives are attempting to include teachers of all levels around the world to participate. One such example is TED-Ed, the new educational arm of TED.
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Way back in 1984, psychologist Benjamin Bloom reported some shocking study results: Students who engaged in individualized tutoring with a teacher scored 98 percent better than the average performance of students in the traditional classroom. This led Bloom to propose his famous “2 Sigma Problem”: How can we accomplish the same results using methods other than peer tutoring, which are “too costly for most societies to bear on a large scale”?
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Groups Make Change: Creating frog’s Collective Action Toolkit | Blog | design mind
I can imagine a school course that uses the CAT as its backbone curriculum.
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Seth’s Blog: Four questions worth answering
These are provocative questions to consider for the future of educational transformation. A school that can respond powerfully to these questions is on its way to understanding its deeper purpose.
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Seth’s Blog: The decline of fascination and the rise in ennui
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Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning : Shots – Health News : NPR
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What’s Your Mental Model Of Innovation? – Forbes
“We owe our existence to innovation,” writes Gary Hamel in his wonderful new book, What Matters Now. “We owe our prosperity to innovation… We owe our happiness to innovation… We owe our future to innovation… Innovation isn’t a fad—it’s the real deal, the only deal. Our future no less than our past depends on innovation.”
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Is ‘Shared Value’ A New Mental Model For Innovation? – Forbes
In my most recent marks on #MustRead, I am examining the idea of disruptive innovation in schools. The internal links in this sub-collection of Forbes articles contain some rich soil for thinking about the mental models for innovation in education.
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Why Clayton Christensen Worries About Apple – Forbes
My question: Are schools primarily in a state of sustaining innovation or disruptive innovation? Are schools yet confronting self-disruption?
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What Killed Michael Porter’s Monitor Group? The One Force That Really Matters – Forbes
if a business [school] is to survive, it must aim to add value to customers through continuous innovation and finding new ways of delighting [empowering-educating] its customers. Experimentation and innovation become an integral part of everything the organization does.
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Instead of seeing business—and strategy and business education—as a matter of figuring out how to defeat one’s known rivals and protect oneself against competition through structural barriers, if a business is to survive, it must aim to add value to customers through continuous innovation and finding new ways of delighting its customers. Experimentation and innovation become an integral part of everything the organization does.
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shifted the concept of the bottom line and the very purpose of the firm so that the whole organization focuses on delivering steadily more value to customers through innovation. Thus experimentation and innovation become an integral part of everything the company does. Companies with this mental model have shown a consistent ability to innovate and to disrupt their own businesses with innovation.
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Is continuous innovation sustainable?
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they are consistently disrupting others, rather than being disrupted themselves.
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they are doing a lot better than firms pursuing shareholder value or focusing merely on defeating rivals.
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Bo… how do you read so much?
Aaron, that’s a good question. I make reading and research a priority, and in my new work it’s an even higher expectation. I’d love to talk more about it with you, if you are interested. I’ve certainly found some tricks along the way. I’d love to learn from you, too.
I hope you are getting many mentors for your incredible course. I want to talk more about that with you, too.