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Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data? | Talk Video | TED.com
A truly thought-provoking, personal talk that challenges us to be more mindful with data, context for data, and the assessments that yield interpretable data.
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Student Choice Leads to Student Voice | Edutopia
Connected colleagues at SLA share case students of ways that they are integrating student choice and voice into their work as educational designers. HT @MeghanCureton
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The way I understood school learning shifted the first time I was given an opportunity to design a project of my own.
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For the first time in my life, school had not been about finding ways to meet requirements established by others — it was about work that I believed in.
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Learning that incorporates student choice provides a pathway for students to fully, genuinely invest themselves in quality work that matters. Participating in learning design allows students to make meaning of content on their own terms.
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School works when students have opportunities to produce quality work about issues that matter.
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Education works when people have opportunities to find and develop unaccessed or unknown voices and skills.
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Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater | Talk Video | TED.com
A magnificent “PBL!”
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Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think | Talk Video | TED.com
Reminds me of MVPS’s “Mistake of the Year” Award to promote risk taking and #failup iterative prototyping!
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How Companies Can Profit from a “Growth Mindset” – Harvard Business Review
What if schools were (even) more purposeful about building growth mindsets in learners young and old? Not only would it impact the immediate, but it might also impact future economic strength and community satisfaction in our country and beyond as those young learners become the business and civic leaders of tomorrow!
HT @NicoleNMartin
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Experiential Learning: Is there really a question about this? | User Generated Education
An intriguing complement to the #MustRead from @HollyChesser this week.
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To Which Word are You More Predisposed: Action or Understanding? | Shed Some Light
A beautiful post that poses a dichotomous question about our preference for “action” or “understanding,” perhaps in effort to inquire as to this recent push in schooling to make and do. For me, both are powerful tools in the toolbox, so to speak, and they are inseparably interwoven.
In another “input” for me this weekend, I heard a podcaster question the idea of “balance.” Instead she challenged us to think about integration. Perhaps action and understanding must be better integrated in the learning arc we call “school.” Maybe that’s what educators are responding to — a sense of disintegration (what some may call imbalance).
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Curiosity: It Helps Us Learn, But Why? : NPR Ed : NPR
HT @TreyBoden
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Students asking questions and then exploring the answers. That’s something any good teacher lives for. And at the heart of it all is curiosity.
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Blackwell, like many others teachers, understands that when kids are curious, they’re much more likely to stay engaged.
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brain’s chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us better learn and retain information.
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curious brains are better at learning not only about the subject at hand, but also other stuff — even incidental, boring information.
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“They feel especially good if they discover something, if they construct knowledge themselves.”
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“Curiosity really is one of the very intense and very basic impulses in humans. We should base education on this behavior.”
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What’s Next for PBL? | Edutopia
Another fabulous PBL piece from Suzie Boss. HT @TreyBoden
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We expect the phrase “deeper learning” will continue to gain traction to describe the multifaceted outcomes of project-based learning.
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His must-have list includes qualities such as “work worth doing,” providing students with authentic audiences, and using assessment practices that emphasize formative feedback.
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During project planning, it’s important to build in enough time for iterative cycles of review, feedback, and revision.
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These trends have the potential to disrupt traditional education; the role of the teacher has to change when students are directing more of their own learning. Yet the same trends should be complementary to PBL practices, which naturally connect with students’ interests and put teachers in the role of facilitator.
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How your culture can promote innovation | Paul Taylor
Great slide deck with strong stimulators. Plus, four points on culture and innovation.
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The culture of some organisations is superbly designed to repel anything new.
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