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Steve writes about his own temporary frustrations while being a co-learner with his students rather than the traditional ed “resident expert.” I so appreciate Steve’s honest reflection and encouragement to the Growth Mindset as we shift our paradigm about what it might mean to be “teacher” in different pedagogical postures.
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Fascinating “checklist for change:” 1) relearn the importance of collective action, 2) put an end to rhetorical excess, 3) empower a different kind of faculty leader, 4) recast the faculty-staffing table, 5) make the academic department the unit of instructional production.
HT @meghancureton
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Changing that last condition—in essence, rebuilding a faculty culture of change and innovation—will require forceful and, more important, collective action on our part as members of the faculty. As individuals we will have to abandon that sense of ourselves as independent actors and agents.
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On Vulnerability | Dani Shapiro
In looking more deeply at “reflective practice,” I am re-examining a body of work under the umbrella of vulnerability. Interestingly, while doing so, a colleague in Baltimore sent an inquiry about reflective practice and Brene Brown. Also, this morning’s walk and podcast was Debbie Milman, of Design Matters, interviewing Dani Shapiro. They mention this post.
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Collective Genius – Harvard Business Review
“In the way they behave and structure the organizations where talented people work, leaders can draw out the slices of genius in each individual and assemble them into innovations that represent collective genius. The question is not “How do I make innovation happen?” but, rather, “How do I set the stage for it to happen?””
HT @MeghanCureton, @CenterTeach
Category Archives: #MustRead Shares – Weekly Reading
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Why kids love Scratch: It lets them fail in a way their parents don’t – Quartz
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Design Is About Intent | Rampant Innovation
HT @occam98
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And design is about intent.
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Intent means purpose; something highly designed was crafted with intention in every creative decision.
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Overarching intent is easy. The hard part is driving that conscious decision-making throughout every little choice in the creative process. Good designers have a clear sense of the overall purpose of their creation; great designers can say, “This is why we made that decision” about a thousand details.
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Three Design Evasions
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The first evasion: Preserving
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The second evasion: Copying
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The third evasion: Delegating
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The Goal of Education Is Becoming – Education Week
HT @nicolenmartin
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The real goal of education, and of school, is becoming—becoming a “good” person and becoming a more capable person than when you started. Learning is nothing but a means of accomplishing that goal, and it is dangerous to confuse the ends with the means.
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A Philosophy of Walking: Thoreau, Nietzsche and Kant on Walking
An interesting piece on walking as a way of slowly and deeply thinking – critically important to creative think and innovative progress on complex things.
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Project and Learning Matrix structure at Newington CollegeHT @MeghanCureton
Via @rolfek: 4wk integrated lrng project on Sustainability. http://t.co/KJ62Epsvoh CC (@KristynGatesA @EmilyBreite @HollyChesser @boadams1) -
The Overflowing Froth of Realness: Iowa BIG | ThinkThankThunk
HT @occam98
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The teaching and learning of the students overflows beyond any individual teacher so quickly, it’s almost amazing that we’ve intentionally left the community out of education for so long.
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grades are supposed to be communicative over time, instead of summative of a time
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symbiotic, intentionally-built relationship between education, business, nonprofit, government
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What Does (and Doesn’t) Progressive Education Plus Technology Look Like? Thoughts on AltSchool
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5 Ways Student Choice Impacts Learning – A.J. Juliani
HT @ChipHouston1976
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10 Commandments of Innovative Teaching – A.J. Juliani
HT @ChipHouston1976
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HT @jbrettjacobsen
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What do College Professors Want from Incoming High School Graduates? | the becoming radical
HT @HollyChesser
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To offer a negative to the opening question, just as art professors at the college level do not want students who have done only paint-by-number, college professors who ask students to write do not want students who can write only canned essays and students who believe “never use ‘I’” or “don’t start sentences with ‘and.’”
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As writers, then, students need ample experiences in high school with choice—choosing what texts they read and then choosing what types of writing they produce.
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And here, I note, is the key quality college professors want from students in all aspects of academics (and life), including writing: Students who are purposeful, thoughtful, and autonomous. Too often the best students approach professors with “What do you want?” instead of having the background and confidence to make their own informed decisions.
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To offer a negative to the opening question, just as art professors at the college level do not want students who have done only paint-by-number, college professors who ask students to write do not want students who can write only canned essays and students who believe “never use ‘I’” or “don’t start sentences with ‘and.’”
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And here, I note, is the key quality college professors want from students in all aspects of academics (and life), including writing: Students who are purposeful, thoughtful, and autonomous. Too often the best students approach professors with “What do you want?” instead of having the background and confidence to make their own informed decisions.
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As writers, then, students need ample experiences in high school with choice—choosing what texts they read and then choosing what types of writing they produce.
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here are some experiences that high school students need before entering college as young writers
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learning not to act like a student anymore, but to become a writer, and specifically, to become a scholar who writes.
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What is Humane Education? | Institute for Humane Education
“What if we all had the passion and skills to solve the most pressing challenges of our time, and, through our daily choices, work, and acts of citizenship, made choices that do the most good and least harm for ourselves, other people, animals, and the earth?”
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Watch Zoe Weil’s Talk | Institute for Humane Education
HT @JennyNovoselsky
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Twitter / 61WatsonWarrior: #ctedchat What are you? How …
HT @scitechyedu
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“Undergraduate students that join VIP teams earn academic credit for their participation in design/discovery efforts that assist faculty and graduate students with research and development issues in their areas of expertise.”
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The Maker Movement Conquers the Classroom — THE Journal
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“When kids and teachers are given an opportunity to make, to create,” Moran said, “all of a sudden you see people becoming passionate about who they are as learners.”
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22 Things We Do As Educators That Will Embarrass Us In 25 Years
HT @SAISNews #Priceless
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Teachers as Technology Trailblazers: Personalizing PD: It’s About Empowerment; Not Tools
“The magic ingredient for personalized learning isn’t prescriptive content; it’s empowerment.”
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if you’re defining personalized learning as targeted content delivery, you’re missing the mark.
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the process must “begin with the learner.” This means that the learner is integral to creating the goals, tasks, and methods by which learning actually happens.
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The magic ingredient for personalized learning isn’t prescriptive content; it’s empowerment.
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When people decide what they want to learn, individualized ownership creates the magic.
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As we select the tools that will help us grow the capacity of educators, personalized learning should be considered. But rather than pick tools that prescribe the type of learning that should take place, perhaps we should use our resources to truly answer the following question for every teacher: What do you want to learn?
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Elizabeth Gilbert: Success, failure and the drive to keep creating | Video on TED.com
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Conceptual Understanding in Mathematics | Granted, and…
Fabulous Grant Wiggins piece on conceptual understanding in math and why we need to focus more on such an objective in schools.
“Conceptual understanding in mathematics means that students understand which ideas are key (by being helped to draw inferences about those ideas) and that they grasp the heuristic value of those ideas. They are thus better able to use them strategically to solve problems – especially non-routine problems – and avoid common misunderstandings as well as inflexible knowledge and skill.”
Good list of misunderstandings/myths, and an interesting little “test” from Grant.
HT @nicolenmartin
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There is a world of difference between a student who can summon a mnemonic device to expand a product such as (a + b)(x + y) and a student who can explain where the mnemonic comes from.
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By comparing a variety of solution strategies, children build their understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction.
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Being helped to generalize from one’s specific knowledge is key to genuine understanding.
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Conceptual knowledge refers to an understanding of meaning; knowing that multiplying two negative numbers yields a positive result is not the same thing as understanding why it is true.
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