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The Value of Scalable Learning, Or How a Hardcore Geek Became a Softy | Big Think Edge | Big Think
“What is the half-life of a skill? It used to be about 30 years, says Brown. In other words, you could go to school and expect to learn a skill that would last throughout most of your career. In today’s rapidly changing world, however, the half life of a skill is more like 5 years, Brown says. That means that what you learn in school only gets you so far. The rest of your learning will need to come on the job.
Moreover, the business model of the last 100 years that aimed to achieve scalable efficiency, according to Brown, is the very thing that stands in our way now in our unpredictable world.
So how do we move institutions to a model of scalable learning?”
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Five Principles to Turbocharge Innovation
“Matanovic outlined five simple yet profound principles for the day. These are leadership values that you can articulate and model to reframe group work to maximize creativity and minimize destructive politics; overcome barriers and avoid rabbit holes; and bolster enthusiastic engagement. They aligned nicely with work that I have done and research I have encountered exploring systems-based leadership:”
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How to Make a New Product Unique
“Most important, the culture of the organization changed from one of silos, largely indifferent to one another, to one of intensive cross-functional alignment, with a strong feeling of mutual commitment.”
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Establishing that kind of advantage—unique product attributes, supported by a differentiated set of capabilities to buoy them up—is harder than it seems at first glance. Essentially, it involves making a big bet on a very few capabilities, and giving up all the other activities that don’t feed into that commitment.
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“It’s easy to be exposed to education, but actually quite a challenge to learn.”
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21st c. competencies as transfer: NRC’s Educating for Life and Work | 21k12
“21st century competencies are the outcomes of deeper learning; they are what students are able to do and demonstrate by leveraging their previous learning to transfer to real world problem solving and life long learning.”
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Playing with Professional Development (Literally) | The Creativity Post
“But sometimes, putting teachers and students out of their comfort zones can encourage them to interact and design solutions with one another.”
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Walt Disney On Fullfillment – 99U
The 4 Cs at the heart of the other Cs.
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Why the Maker Movement matters to educators | SmartBlogs SmartBlogs
“Giving kids the opportunity to learn about what they love means they will love what they learn.”
Great “Lessons from the Maker Movement”
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Not Too Hard, Not Too Easy: Finding Flow In Your Work – 99U
Not the best piece I’ve read on Flow, but still a great thought-provoker on how we might design for flow in school.
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Parents: 19 Meaningful Questions You Should Ask Your Child’s Teacher | Edutopia
What if “back-to-school night/day” for parents was handled by preemptively addressing these Qs as a faculty?!
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How You Climb A Mountain Is More Important Than Reaching The Top
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Debunking the Genius Myth | MindShift
“It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” Einstein
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