• The Goal of Education Is Becoming – Education Week

  HT @nicolenmartin

  tags: purpose of education #mustread

  • The real goal of education, and of school, is becoming—becoming a “good” person and becoming a more capable person than when you started. Learning is nothing but a means of accomplishing that goal, and it is dangerous to confuse the ends with the means.

• A Philosophy of Walking: Thoreau, Nietzsche and Kant on Walking

  An interesting piece on walking as a way of slowly and deeply thinking – critically important to creative think and innovative progress on complex things.

  tags: walking creativity #MustRead

• challenge based learning

  Project and Learning Matrix structure at Newington CollegeHT @MeghanCureton
  Via @rolfek: 4wk integrated lrng project on Sustainability. http://t.co/KJ62Epsvoh CC (@KristynGatesA @EmilyBreite @HollyChesser @boadams1)

  tags: CBL PBL DBL TDed Synergy #MustRead

• The Overflowing Froth of Realness: Iowa BIG | ThinkThankThunk

  HT @occam98

  tags: real-world ActionEd Synergy #MustRead curriculum PBL iDiploma

  • The teaching and learning of the students overflows beyond any individual teacher so quickly, it’s almost amazing that we’ve intentionally left the community out of education for so long.
  • grades are supposed to be communicative over time, instead of summative of a time
  • symbiotic, intentionally-built relationship between education, business, nonprofit, government

Posted from Diigo. The rest of my favorite links are here.