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If You Were the Next Steve Jobs… – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
“You don’t get to tomorrow by solving yesterday’s problems.”
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Seth’s Blog: Understanding critical path
Wow! This piece on critical path could help revolutionize school innovation and transformation. If we would just practice such discipline.
How to integrate w/ #Decisive, #ShipIt, #Switch, etc?!
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Seth’s Blog: Salmagundi on offer is not the shortcut it appears to be
Brilliant advice for schools! (Understandably, out of love for children and learning, schools try to be all things to all people. More and more, schools must consider “What will we be extraordinary in, and what will we stop doing in order to achieve that extraordinary?”)
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How Visual Thinking Improves Writing | MindShift
“She thinks it’s important for students to have a space to express themselves without specific writing assignments or limitations. They write and draw what matters in their own lives and in the process develop their voice, humor, and point of view. They get to play with language and break out of cookie cutter forms of writing like the persuasive essay.”
Connection to #Synergy observation journals.
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Google Reveals Its 9 Principles of Innovation | Fast Company | Business + Innovation
HT @grantlichtman
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From Brooklyn to Jakarta: Teaching Teachers Well | Edutopia
“What if all professional development modeled the pedagogy that school leaders ask of their teachers?”
Great case study piece on using what I call the Golden Rule of pedagogy: Do unto teachers as we would have them do unto students.
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Dive Into Science With Zombies, Superheroes, and Fairies | MindShift
Fabulous case study and example of a teacher who foundationed on student interest and curiosity and THEN worked to ID the formal learning outcomes that we subject-silo in formal schooling. Brava!
#Synergy method
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In India, a School that Empowers Students and Teachers | Edutopia
An incredible job description for TEACHER. Also, navigation to educational innovation and school transformation.
“My role in the classroom is not to deliver content,” Newcomb says. “It’s all about listening — and listening some more. You listen to find out, what do students wonder about? What are their frustrations, their passions? My job is to listen and then make connections, to turn them into knowledgeable networkers as opposed to knowledgeable workers.”
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An interesting look at why we fail to do and accomplish certain things, even when we possess the knowledge and understanding. While the main-thread example is medicine, one could easily replace “medicine” with “schooling.”
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Unstuck iPad app – How to live better every day – Unstuck
“Free-flowing gratitude can help you get unstuck. “Feeling good lubricates mental efficiency…”
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“The need for design thinking. This movement to build a generation of design thinkers could not be more timely or more relevant. We are living in an age of increased complexity, and are facing global challenges at an unprecedented scale. The nature of connectivity, interactivity, and information is changing at lightening speed. We need to enable a generation of leaders who believe they can make a difference in the world around them, because we need this generation to build new systems and rebuild declining ones. We need them to be great collaborators, great communicators, and great innovators.”
Category Archives: #MustRead Shares – Weekly Reading
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Do You have the Personality To Be an Inquiry-Based Teacher? | MindShift
Great questions regarding the mindset of inquiry-based instruction!
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Informal Learning: Facing the Inevitable and Seizing the Advantage | Edutopia
Great piece about what we call learning and what we call school.
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How do we teach – coach, really – the ways to find one’s purpose? I’ve yet to see a class called “Purpose” in a school course catalog (and I’m not sure I’d want to see it so silo-ed out). Do we help learners understand and uncover and discover their purpose as much as we help them learn punctuation, penmanship, and prepositions?
I love this piece and resource from Unstuck and Stone Yamashita Partners.
May we be as concerned with #Purpose in schools as we tend to be with the other P’s above.
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The Ethics of Innovation & Reform in Education | Connected Principals
Fascinating, provocative blog post about some questions to ask when innovating in education. For example, #2 is “What will be the possible impacts of your action? Predicting and applying systems thinking to this process is critical. Like Peter Senge writes: ‘today’s problems are a consequence of yesterday’s solutions'”
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Steve Jobs: “Real artists ship.” | bwagy
“That’s why the latter option mentioned in my previous post of “Get it out the door asap 80% done. For you will make mistakes anyway. Best get first one out the door so the second, third, fourth are even better.” works best when you’re doing something new, different, innovative… ie worth doing.” [HT @jbrettjacobsen]
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Eight Ways to Communicate Your Strategy More Effectively – Georgia Everse – Harvard Business Review
“Here are just a few communications approaches that will help you effectively reach your employees and encourage behaviors that advance your strategy and improve your results.”
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Turn Creative Fear Into Fuel – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat
“Fear has the potential to be a driving force in your creative process.”
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Unstuck – Finding Purpose: 20 true stories
“purpose defines who we are and what we do in life.”
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Reframing Failure as Iteration Allows Students to Thrive | Edutopia
“At New York City’s game-based learning school Quest to Learn, sixth graders take risks in the process of designing a Rube Goldberg machine, which enables more creativity, innovation, and engagement.”
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Imagining the Future of Learning Takes Hold at Miami Valley School, Dayton | The Learning Pond
Great examples of innovation-portfolio items at Miami Valley School.
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Beautiful film outtake w/ transcripted narration of the critical bedrock of curiosity!
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“As part of the 2013 Global Innovation 1000 study, Booz & Company surveyed executives at more than 350 companies around the world to learn more about the digital tools that are transforming innovation. Our results show that at the development phase, productivity tools have reached maturity—most are widely used and effective. In other phases, particularly the front end of the innovation process, companies are experimenting with new marketing and customer insight tools that have game-changing potential.”
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The Design WalkIn – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat
COOL! “The Design WalkIn is a storefront design walk in clinic that helps to facilitate relationships between designers and the general public. Designers, just like any other professional, have to be the right fit. We realized we were really good at brokering these relationships. We also had extensive networks within several practices of design, so we set up this clinic called the Design WalkIn that popped up on King St W last year. It was open to the public to come and book an appointment with a specialist.”
I can imagine MVPS learners creating such a service in Sandy Springs!
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We Can Do It: Learn New Things Effectively – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat
A “lesson plan” for #deeperlearning. If I were to have a magic wand or be granted one wish for BIG change in education, it would be to infuse and integrate this kind of philosophy and practice into more of the foundational bedrock of schooling. For me, this connects to my two favorite statements by Sir Ken Robinson: 1) Schools should ask “How are you smart?” not “How smart are you?” and 2) The basics are purposes not subjects.
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If you want to learn something new, take it into your own hands.
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Embarking on a path of innovation and self-initiation, the need for specific skills reveal themselves simply through necessity and process — you can plan ahead, but that can only take you so far.
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The more you become invested in your idea, the more you’ll want to learn in order to refine it and make it better.
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A sum of small accomplishments can ultimately pave the way towards bigger things,
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Teresa Amabile’s work connected to small successes. Links to Growth Mindset and grit work with Angela Duckworth, Paul Tough.
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21 Reasons To Quit Your Job And Become A Teacher | Katrina Fried
A truly inspirational piece that reminds us professional educators to be grateful for our work. At the same time, I can’t help but think that one does not have to “Quit Your Job and Become a Teacher” if we would work more earnestly for Education 3.0, which could provide more opportunities for student learners to connect with “teachers” in their workplaces… a different way of thinking about “school.”
[HT @RhettsMustangs]
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Recruiters Without Borders – Companies Scout Globally – NYTimes.com
“The third annual Global Employability Survey, designed and commissioned by the French education consulting firm Emerging and carried out by the German market research firm Trendence, asked recruiters and senior international executives to profile an ideal university graduate — and the ideal university producing such graduates.”
[HT Greg Jones @CoopScience]
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An oldie but goodie! Hat tip to Eileen Fennelly for sending me this piece and reminding me of it. Krakovsky gives a strong summary of Dweck’s mindset work and connects to a number of related researchers and applications.