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http://m.good.is/posts/are-we-educating-for-capitalism-or-democracy
“If so many of our aspirations in the classroom are governed by the service we provide to “the future”-whether that’s the next grade level, college, or career-I wonder why we can’t together think more creatively, and generatively, about a dynamic vision of a future students can create, rather than a static vision of a marketplace they should simply service.”
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Countering the Authoritarian Reform Agenda
Don’t miss @JackHassard on “Progressive Principles in Politics & Education” http://t.co/SkBab2gHCh @pgow @grantlichtman @boadams1
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I am going to argue in this post that progressive values should set the ideals of teaching and learning in American society. These values are rooted in democratic ideals and citizen action. Unfortunately the cloud of authoritarianism looms over education, making it difficult to design curriculum and instruction around progressive values.
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If Robots Will Run the World, What Should Students Learn? | MindShift
This piece is great… And not really about robots.
“School, he said, should focus on teaching young people the intangibles, the things that make humans unique: relationships, flexibility, humanity, how to make discriminating decisions, resilience, innovation, adaptability, wisdom, ethics, curiosity, how to ask good questions, synthesizing and integrating information, and of course, creating.”
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What You’ll Do Next – NYTimes.com
“One of my take-aways is that big data is really good at telling you what to pay attention to. It can tell you what sort of student is likely to fall behind. But then to actually intervene to help that student, you have to get back in the world of causality, back into the world of responsibility, back in the world of advising someone to do x because it will cause y.”
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How Design Can Change a CEO’s Life | LinkedIn
“I have increasingly become a believer that design can be used to aid leaders in navigating today’s complex landscape. Design gives us the ability to see data visually and spatially, and governed by systematic principles. It cuts through information overload that provides a path to see “the whole”. After all, the word “design” comes from the German word gestaltung, meaning “shape” or “form” – in essence, how we see the big picture and can make sense of aspects of our world. Design affords a toolkit of core principles that straddles the line between beauty and functionality and that goes well beyond “making something pretty”.”
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I used to think… | Wright’sRoom
“I’m becoming a better teacher by giving up a lot of what I used to think.”
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it's about learning 
Per “Robots”: remarkable to me the very high percentage of teachers who believe they can teach this way (given some PD and time) but don’t see how to assess the outcomes, and of course they are slaves to the assessment piece.