• How To Kill A Learner’s Curiosity In 10 Easy Steps

  HT @abbyli123

  tags: curiosity #MustRead

• Life of an Educator: 5 alternatives to traditional homework

  HT @Kat_A_Jones

  tags: homework #MustRead

• The Myth of Average: Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty – YouTube

  HT @ Lawrence Smith

  tags: average school model TEDx #MustRead

• The Beautiful Pursuit of Inquiry | I wonder

  A beautiful reflective inquiry into knowledge, understanding, wisdom, as well as how we assess and value these “things” in school.

  tags: idiploma innovationdiploma learning assessment #MustRead

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• Social Entrepreneurship: 7 Ways to Empower Student Changemakers | Edutopia

  tags: social entrepreneurship PBL iproject idiploma changemaker #MustRead #CohortRead

• d.school: the whiteboard | 5 Prototyping lessons from a BMX backflip

  Incredible prototyping case study with fabulous meta-lessons for making-to-learn! 

  tags: prototype #MustRead

• A Military Leader’s Approach to Dealing with Complexity

  tags: Leadership #MustRead

• Wearing Your Failures on Your Sleeve – NYTimes.com

  tags: Failure Failup startup #MustRead

  • FailCon, a one-day conference in San Francisco celebrating failure
  • a company called Fail Forward consults with companies looking to examine and learn from their failures
  • “Nobody wants to fail,” says Ashley Good, chief executive and founder of Fail Forward. “It’s awful. You will never hear me say to celebrate failure.” But, she added, “failing intelligently is an increasingly important skill.”

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• How One Teacher Changed for the Good of Her Students | MindShift

  tags: School Change #mustread curiosity

• https://hbr.org/2014/11/learning-is-the-most-celebrated-neglected-activity-in-the-workplace/

  tags: hbr learning #mustread

• Tupac — Yes, THAT Tupac — on Education. |

  tags: School Change #MustRead

• Schools that work for kids | Eric Sheninger | TEDxBurnsvilleED – YouTube

  HT @Kat_A_Jones
  “We work for kids.” Great talk via @E_Sheninger https://t.co/SJDMQ350d9 Thanks @Kat_A_Jones for sharing with #idiploma @MViDiploma

  tags: idiploma schools school model School Change #MustRead

• The Three Dimensions of Student Achievement – Learning Deeply – Education Week

  “When a student is finished with school and moves into adult life, she will be judged not by her ability to perform on a test of basic skills, but by the quality of her work and character. This holds true regardless of what career or life role she chooses. Quality work and character are the keys to a successful life. So why are they not the primary focus of schools?”

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: achievement learning education #MustRead

• Learning to Enjoy Learning Again | The Creek Bed

  “I don’t like homework because I think it takes away from all of the other things I could be doing with my life “

  tags: homework #MustRead learning

• Project-Based Learning Research Review | Edutopia

  tags: pbl project based learning project-based #MustRead

• Five Keys to Rigorous Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  tags: pbl project based learning project-based #MustRead video

• 13 Lessons for Design’s New Golden Age | WIRED

  “We’re living amidst a new renaissance in design: Call it Silicon Modern—a moment made possible by cheap processors, new software, digital manufacturing, and novel approaches to problem solving. To ring in this era, WIRED collected 13 exemplars that encompass everything from big ideas to novel forms of expression.”

  HT @TJEdwards62

  tags: design #mustread

• Breaking the Mold: School Fosters Design and Discovery | MindShift

  HT @TJEdwards62

  tags: school model schooldesign designthinking makered knowmadic #MustRead

  • those with control over education policy are making decisions on the old model of schooling — knowledge held by teachers who deliver information to students — while young learners are clamoring for something different.
  • “Modern learning is more about discovery,” Richardson said. “It’s not so much waiting as doing.”
  • Learners should be empowered to continue learning and to use their interests and passion to fuel projects that they care about.
  • “In modern learning it’s all about producing and iterating, figuring out what’s working and not working, revising, trying again,”

• A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. – NYTimes.com

  tags: adhd creativity nytimes com #MustRead

  • people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture.
  • if you have the “illness,” the real problem is that, to your brain, the world that you live in essentially feels not very interesting.
  • having the profile of what we now call A.D.H.D. would have made you a Paleolithic success story.
  • I think another social factor that, in part, may be driving the “epidemic” of A.D.H.D. has gone unnoticed: the increasingly stark contrast between the regimented and demanding school environment and the highly stimulating digital world, where young people spend their time outside school.
  • But perhaps we can leverage the experience of adults who grew out of their symptoms to help these kids. First, we should do everything we can to help young people with A.D.H.D. select situations — whether schools now or professions later on — that are a better fit for their novelty-seeking behavior, just the way adults seem to self-select jobs in which they are more likely to succeed.

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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.

  tags: data ted #MustRead assessment

• 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

  tags: PBL choice voice edutopia SLA #MustRead

  • The way I understood school learning shifted the first time I was given an opportunity to design a project of my own.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • School works when students have opportunities to produce quality work about issues that matter.
  • Education works when people have opportunities to find and develop unaccessed or unknown voices and skills.

• Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater | Talk Video | TED.com

  A magnificent “PBL!”

  tags: adventure curiosity video ted ted com PBL #MustRead

• 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!

  tags: video ted ted com innovation Failup #MustRead

• 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

  tags: mindset growth mindset GrowthMindset #MustRead

• Experiential Learning: Is there really a question about this? | User Generated Education

  An intriguing complement to the #MustRead from @HollyChesser this week.

  tags: experiential #MustRead

• 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).

  tags: action understanding #MustRead

• Curiosity: It Helps Us Learn, But Why? : NPR Ed : NPR

  HT @TreyBoden

  tags: curiosity #MustRead

  • 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.
  • Blackwell, like many others teachers, understands that when kids are curious, they’re much more likely to stay engaged.
  • brain’s chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us better learn and retain information.
  • curious brains are better at learning not only about the subject at hand, but also other stuff — even incidental, boring information.
  • “They feel especially good if they discover something, if they construct knowledge themselves.”
  • “Curiosity really is one of the very intense and very basic impulses in humans. We should base education on this behavior.”

• What’s Next for PBL? | Edutopia

  Another fabulous PBL piece from Suzie Boss. HT @TreyBoden

  tags: pbl projectbasedlearning project based learning project_based_learning #MustRead

  • We expect the phrase “deeper learning” will continue to gain traction to describe the multifaceted outcomes of project-based learning.
  • His must-have list includes qualities such as “work worth doing,” providing students with authentic audiences, and using assessment practices that emphasize formative feedback.
  • During project planning, it’s important to build in enough time for iterative cycles of review, feedback, and revision.
  • 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.

• How your culture can promote innovation | Paul Taylor

  Great slide deck with strong stimulators. Plus, four points on culture and innovation.

  tags: innovation culture #MustRead

  • The culture of some organisations is superbly designed to repel anything new.

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• Time to Debunk Those PBL Myths | Edutopia

  Fabulous piece from Suzie Boss and superb links to PBL resources.

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: pbl problem_based_learning projectbasedlearning project based learning project_based_learning #MustRead

• How Can Students Have More Say in School Decisions? | MindShift

  Kudos to @Tara_SuperSub

  tags: Student Voice #MustRead

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