• The Case Against Standards-Based Grading – And How to Respond to It | Solution Tree Blog

  HT @eijunkie

  tags: grading assessment Standards-Based #MustRead solution tree School Change

• What’s it like to change grading and reporting practices that have been around for over 100 years? | Creative Tension

  tags: grading assessment learning #MustRead schoolreform School Change leadership

• School Makerspaces: Building the Buzz | Edutopia

  makerspace

  tags: Maker makerspace Edutopia #MustRead Agency resources

  • Students who have had all personal choice removed by traditional educational models can be passive and feel overwhelmed when faced with real-world problems or design challenges. Academic passivity is common in schools where students swallow content and regurgitate it on multiple-choice tests. Students simply want to know how to get the “A.” This type of learning does not stick.

• Designing the Future, One Napkin at a Time — Tomorrow in Progress at IDEO — Medium

  tags: Design school3.0 innovation #MustRead

• innovation means learning at work

  HT @Meghan Cureton

  tags: innovation learning communities of practice Networking connected #MustRead

  • Innovation is not so much about having ideas as it is about connecting and nurturing ideas.

• Innovation is a network activity

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: innovation Networking connected #MustRead

  • Innovation is not brilliant flashes of individual insight but collective learning through social networks. No networks, no learning.
  • Innovation is not brilliant flashes of individual insight but collective learning through social networks. No networks, no learning.
  • The focus of innovation has to be on we, not me.

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