• Must today’s eighth-graders know three ways animals survive in cold winters? How to renovate the instructional core. – The Washington Post

  tags: School Change 21C 21st century learning #MustRead transdisciplinary

• Educators Innovating Learning From the Inside Out | Edutopia

  tags: teacherprenuer DesignThinking teacher-researchers Ashoka MVPS #MustRead edutopia

• The Monthly Recharge – School And… Leadership + Design

  Latest Monthly Recharge. “School and. . .” What else can schools be? http://t.co/3fwJejTocE @RyanmBurke @crystalland @boadams1 @GaryGruber
  @boadams1 @Carla_R_Silver @leadanddesign here it is! http://t.co/2y4kMi4U9i

  tags: innovation schools of the future School Change schooldesign schoolreform #mustread

• The Research Behind Choice and Inquiry-Based Education – A.J. Juliani

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: choice inquiry 20% inquiry-based #mustread

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• Learning Through Tinkering – NYTimes.com

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: #MustRead school model nytimes com brightworks tinkering makered projectbasedlearning ProjectH

• Breaking the ruler: Melbourne school lets students choose when to learn, what to study – RN Afternoons – ABC Radio National (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

  @boadams1 have you seen this? Breaking the ruler: Melbourne school lets students choose when to learn, what to study http://t.co/IAbUGWGDcy HT @eijunkie

  tags: #MustRead schools of the future school model schoolreform School Change

• Homework vs. No Homework Is the Wrong Question | Edutopia

  HT @eijunkie

  tags: homework #MustRead parenting

  • Ideally, we want children to understand that they are always learners. In school, we refer to them as “students” but outside of school, as children, they are still learners. So it makes no sense to even advertise a “no homework” policy in a school. It sends the wrong message. The policy should be, “No time-wasting, rote, repetitive tasks will be assigned that lack clear instructional or learning purposes.”

• Must Read: Student Control of Time and Subject in Australian High School | The Future of K-12 Education

  tags: school3.0 schools of the future School Change schoolreform schooldesign #MustRead

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• Stanford’s Most Popular Class Isn’t Computer Science–It’s Something Much More Important

  HT Dr. Nathan Vigil

  tags: stanford college designthinking gameplan #MustRead

• 5 Lessons On Innovation From Modern-Day Explorers And Adventurers

  “One of the highest return investments any company can make is in an exploration practice.”
  HT@MeghanCureton
  Innovators and explorers…you may want a formula but it’s about a menu http://t.co/s9zQsURFQW @boadams1

  tags: exploration innovation #MustRead

  • using exploration to fuel invention
  • In studying more than 2,000 companies, the World Database of Innovation Initiative (WDI) has discovered that many of the highest-growth companies share one peculiarity: They invest in someone or something exploring the edge of human ability
  • An explorer, on the other hand, envisions the endpoint, assumes it is possible, and then figures out how to get there.
  • making a simple but profound shift from a “Can we do this?” to “How will we do this?”
  • In fact, the only two things risky about investing in innovation are treating it like a pipeline–or not doing it at all.
  • One of the highest return investments any company can make is in an exploration practice. While you may want a formula, the five approaches here are simply a menu.

• Student Engagement: What Do Students Want? | Learn as You Go

  tags: studentengagement #MustRead

• Innovate By Learning To Fix First – Explore Create Repeat – by Format

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: innovation fix #MustRead synergyseminar

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• Finland schools: Subjects scrapped and replaced with 'topics' as country reforms its education system – Europe – World – The Independent

  HT @Romathio
  Finnish schools dropping subjects. http://t.co/EHZzL2spCB cc: @jbrettjacobsen @boadams1 @EmilyBreite @kristaparker @HollyChesser #mvlearns
  Schools in Finland will no longer teach ‘subjects’ http://t.co/ufIbBOGwN7 @boadams1 @cliffordshelley @chiphouston1976 @jbrettjacobsen

  tags: mvlearns topic-based schoolreform schooldesign schools of the future curriculum #MustRead

  • “What we need now is a different kind of education to prepare people for working life.
  • Subject-specific lessons – an hour of history in the morning, an hour of geography in the afternoon – are already being phased out for 16-year-olds in the city’s upper schools. They are being replaced by what the Finns call “phenomenon” teaching – or teaching by topic.
  • More academic pupils would be taught cross-subject topics such as the European Union – which would merge elements of economics, history (of the countries involved), languages and geography.
  • There are other changes too, not least to the traditional format that sees rows of pupils sitting passively in front of their teacher, listening to lessons or waiting to be questioned. Instead there will be a more collaborative approach, with pupils working in smaller groups to solve problems while improving their communication skills.
  • “We really need a rethinking of education and a redesigning of our system, so it prepares our children for the future with the skills that are needed for today and tomorrow.
  • Ms Kyllonen has been advocating a “co-teaching” approach to lesson planning, with input from more than one subject specialist.

• Skills in Flux – NYTimes.com

  “Making nonhuman things intuitive to humans. Purpose provision. Opposability. Cross-class expertise.”

  tags: skills #MustRead

  • As the economy changes, the skills required to thrive in it change, too, and it takes a while before these new skills are defined and acknowledged.
  • For example, in today’s loosely networked world, people with social courage have amazing value. Everyone goes to conferences and meets people, but some people invite six people to lunch afterward and follow up with four carefully tended friendships forevermore. Then they spend their lives connecting people across networks.
    • Network sustainability.
  • People with social courage are extroverted in issuing invitations but introverted in conversation — willing to listen 70 percent of the time. They build not just contacts but actual friendships by engaging people on multiple levels. If you’re interested in a new field, they can reel off the names of 10 people you should know. They develop large informal networks of contacts that transcend their organization and give them an independent power base. They are discriminating in their personal recommendations since character judgment is their primary currency.
  • “The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.”

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