Show Your Work: Austin Kleon on the Art of Getting Noticed | Brain Pickings
“The best way to get started on the path to sharing your work is to think about what you want to learn, and make a commitment to learning it in front of others.”
d.school: the whiteboard | Drop the design-thinking crutches
“It’s not design thinking that the world needs; it’s design thinkers” #dtk12chat http://t.co/dDx1ichypS
The Critical Few: Components of a Truly Effective Culture
Fantastic read on affecting organizational culture.
Choosing the Right Metrics for Success – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat
“It’s important to know that your sense of professional success is defined by the parameters you set. Choosing the right metrics means knowing how and when to best measure yourself, and that can provide you with the self-driven momentum to exceed even your highest expectations for your career.”
Predicting education trends: #BLC13 & #BLC10 compared | A Stick in the Sand
Video: Full Episode | Watch Is School Enough? Online | PBS Video
” importance of breaking out of the classroom and connecting students to the wider world.”
Better Business Planning Begins at the Circus
Keynote by Lyn Heward at #NAISAC14
List of all 7 doors or strategies Heward suggests for creativity and innovation #NAISAC14 http://t.co/sIpEJ1pWQq
How to Get a Job at Google – NYTimes.com
“Beware. Your degree is not a proxy for your ability to do any job. The world only cares about — and pays off on — what you can do with what you know (and it doesn’t care how you learned it). And in an age when innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, it also cares about a lot of soft skills — leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn. This will be true no matter where you go to work.”
The roots of great design: Ingenuity applied to the ordinary – The Denver Post
“”We think of design not so much as decoration, but as a creative force that can be used to solve problems,” says Flusche, who defines design as “the convergence of creativity and function.””
What Would Be a Radically Different Vision of School? | MindShift
““Modern learning is about the ability to self-organize your education, to create meaning for things that have value in the world and not answer to this institution,” Richardson said.”
How Opening Up Classroom Doors Can Push Education Forward | MindShift
“But what if teachers embraced the idea of transparency as a form of activism, a way of shining light on what works in the classroom? “The minute we say, ‘Come look and talk to the students,’ we can show what we’re all about,” said Jose Vilson, an educator and panelist at EduCon in Philadelphia. “If we can do that with a sense of trust and expertise, with respect for ourselves and others, then we can have a pro something instead of an anti-something.””
HT @nicolenmartin
Where the Fish Swims, Ideas Fly – NYTimes.com
Talk less, Do more. Be in community! All from a fish lamp.
HT @MeghanCureton. #OneOfMyFavoriteArticlesEver
Should We Be Engaging OR Empowering Learners? | The Tempered Radical
Simple Truth: Engagement isn’t Something You Do TO Students. | The Tempered Radical
This is making me think!
Embracing Messy Learning | Edutopia
“I am slowly learning to embrace the struggles that students experience as they engage with authentic work. If I don’t allow learning to be messy, I eliminate authentic experiences for students as thinkers and creators. I find it important to regularly remind myself that frustration leads to insights and that learning is not necessarily the equivalent of mastery.”
What Makes Milpitas a Model for Innovation | EdSurge News
“iReady”
IDEO’s Culture of Helping – Harvard Business Review
“Few things leaders can do are more important than encouraging helping behavior within their organizations. In the top-performing companies it is a norm that colleagues support one another’s efforts to do the best work possible. That has always been true for pragmatic reasons: If companies were to operate at peak efficiency without what organizational scholars call “citizenship behavior,” tasks would have to be optimally assigned 100% of the time, projects could not take any unexpected turns, and no part of any project could go faster or slower than anticipated. But mutual helping is even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes depend on creativity in often very complex projects. Beyond simple workload sharing, collaborative help comes to the fore—lending perspective, experience, and expertise that improve the quality and execution of ideas.”
Integrating Lean Startup and Design Thinking | Integrative Innovation
How #DesignThinking and #LeanStartUp can synergize.
A Work in Progress: Growth Minded Assessment – Growth Mindset Blog
HT @nicolenmartin
IFTF: Future of Learning: From Assigning to Enticing with Content
No More Genius Hours, 20% Time or FedEx Days | Findings
Bill of Rights for Self-Determined Learning via @BombayScot [note to self: interesting serendipity this morning w/ re-discovering McIntosh essay on privilege]
Student Choice and Classrooms of the Future – President’s Blog
President of NAIS, John Chubb, looks at Hillbrook iLab and other learning spaces – concludes that it’s not even as much about the space as it is about student choice driving the learning engagement and pedagogy. Environment is a third teacher in establishing such student-driven exploration and ownership of learning.
