• Breadth and Depth: Can We Have It Both Ways? – Learning Deeply – Education Week

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: breadth depth curriculum #MustRead learning

• The 100-hour knack — The Whiteboard

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: skill learning practice GrowthMindset #MustRead curiosity

  • The 100-hour knack.
  • with a 100 hours of investment into a new skill or practice, you can hit a tipping point, where you start getting more out of the practice than what you put in.

  • I eventually realized I had a new ability available to me.
  • I had unwittingly reached a point where the effort became an asset.
  • it takes just 100 hours to get that knack, and then you’ve gained a forever-useful capability.
  • But the 100-hour knack leads to, perhaps, a more important corollary: an acknowledgement that you need to make the investment, without satisfactory benefit, to get to this point.

  • You will, in fact, put in more time, effort, and struggle in the beginning than the initial results would seem to justify. I don’t think there is any way around this; that’s called learning.
  • The primary need is to have a reason, a purpose, to keep working through those 100 hours even though it is hard and the results aren’t there.

• What is a Performance Task? | PerformanceTask.com

  HT @EdLeader21

  tags: performance task assessment #mustread

• Four Scenarios on the Future of Credentials

  tags: credentials badges microcredentialing #mustread dashboards

• D.I.Y. Education Before YouTube – NYTimes.com

  Interesting look at self-directed learning, with a bit of an historical perspective that points to “we used to learn on our own more.” A good inquiry prompt for explorations such as 1) in what ways is this perspective true or false, 2) what conditions have led to this change over time, 3) how might we structure time so that self-directed learning is more possible and probable, etc. 

  tags: self-directed learning diy #MustRead nytimes com

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