• Only Fools Claim To Know The Future

  “Good players don’t forecast the future, but adapt to it. That is the origin of the saying “keep your eye on the ball”.”

  “Raynor argues that the solution to this is to develop methods for planning that account for strategic uncertainty.”

  tags: future strategy strategic planning pedagogicalmasterplanning #MustRead

• Untangling Skill and Luck in Business, Sports, and Investing

  This piece made the #MustRead because of the section “organizations also lose skill with age.” There are valuable insights and provocations here worthy of much school attention. Immediately, I think of brain science and the skill we should be developing in that domain as educators. If we did more of that, I think our skill would trump our luck more regularly. Additionally, we might focus more on learning than teaching.

  tags: skill luck farnamstreet #MustRead

• Guest Post: Changing Learning Spaces Depends on Technological AND Pedagogical Knowledge – The Tempered Radical

  tags: technology pedagogy pedagogicalmasterplanning #MustRead

• Will · Born To Be Taught?

  tags: #MustRead learning

• Instead of Making Resolutions, Dream – Whitney Johnson – Harvard Business Review

  tags: resolutions identity agency purpose #MustRead

• The Future of You – Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic – Harvard Business Review

  Helping learners with self-branding, entrepreneurship, and hyper connectivity.

  tags: future Leadership #MustRead

• DREAMers, MOOCs, and Charter Schools: The Coming Year in Education – Emily Richmond – The Atlantic

  tags: education trends #MustRead

• GOOD Education: Best of 2012: The Five Most Extraordinary Things to Happen in Education « Cooperative Catalyst

  tags: education #MustRead

• Why Do We Need to Play? (My #rechat Reflection) « Cooperative Catalyst

  tags: play #MustRead

• Between the By-Road and the Main Road: When Excellence is a Single Standardized Measure

  tags: Assessment standardized testing measure #MustRead

• Shy of the Social Media Spotlight? Get Over It. – Dorie Clark – Harvard Business Review

  tags: social media #MustRead

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• With Growth Of ‘Hacker Scouting,’ More Kids Learn To Tinker : NPR

  Also tagged this same piece from GOOD. (HT to @craiglambert75)

  tags: hacker scouting npr #MustRead

• Humility Matters | Practical Theory

  tags: humility #MustRead

• Knowing the Name of Something is Different from Understanding Something | The Creativity Post

  tags: creativity understanding #MustRead

• Boy Scouts Make Way: Kids Explore By Creating | MindShift

  tags: scouts hacker #MustRead

• The Similarities Between Montessori And Digital Learning

  tags: montessori digital #MustRead brainfood

• Seth’s Blog: Learning how to see

  tags: See seth #MustRead

• Ideas for Fun and Learning During the Holiday Break | MindShift

  Fascinating! I love this article, but it baffles me, too! If these are such great ideas for summer and holiday breaks, why are they not more prevalent as PARTS of school?! 

  tags: learning #MustRead

• Best of 2012: Visionaries, Organizations, and Innovations Changing the Way We Learn | Education on GOOD

  tags: innovation futureofed innovations #MustRead brainfood

• Common Core Big Idea 4: Map Backward From Intended Results | Edutopia

  Maybe the best single piece I have ever read about curriculum design.

  tags: CCSS understandingbydesign #MustRead curriculum pedagogicalmasterplanning

• Common Core Big Idea Series 2: The Standards Are Not Curriculum | Edutopia

  A good explanation of difference between standards and curricula. 

  tags: standards curriculum CCSS #MustRead

• The odd correlation between SES and achievement: why haven’t more critical questions been asked? A call to action « Granted, but…

  tags: achievement ses #MustRead

• How to Think About the Future – Innovation for Growth

  tags: innovation #MustRead

• P&G’s Muddled Messages, And The Need For Corporate Meaning | Fast Company

  An important – no, critical – reminder for schools!

  tags: Purpose mission #MustRead

• Innovation Excellence | 6 Innovation Roadblocks Worth Breaking Through

  tags: innovation myths #MustRead

• Keith Yamashita: The 3 Habits of Great Creative Teams :: Videos :: 99U

  tags: teams creative StoneYamashita studio #MustRead #MustSee pedagogicalmasterplanning

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• swissmiss | Oliver Jeffers

  “We ultimately define what it is by how we choose to observe it.” This quote about the theory of duality from an artist may be one of the most powerful lines I have heard about… assessment. Do we not define the work and performance of students in schools by what we choose to assess?

  tags: Design assessment #MustRead

• Eight Aspects of the Teacher as Learner

  tags: teacher_ learning professional learning #MustRead brainfood

• My Teaching Evolution: Authentic Assessments

  tags: assessment assessments #MustRead

• Got a Problem? Students Can Find the Solution | MindShift

  tags: PBL Project-Based problem_based_learning #MustRead real-world brainfood

• The Far-Flung Reach of Caine’s Arcade | MindShift

  tags: play play-based arcade #MustSee #MustRead imagination video game

• Physics in the Hands of a Seven-Year-Old | MindShift

  “a tribute to the ingenuity and resilience of kids — and what happens when you put learning their hands.”

  tags: discovery play #MustSee #MustRead

• ‘Antifragile,’ by Nassim Nicholas Taleb – NYTimes.com

  I wonder … How might volatility help students develop more real-world skills? Would such engagement help them learn to be antifragile? It seems that real-world PBL (capital P) can position learners to work on relevant issues that swim in complexity. Students could solve some of these issues and develop the antifragility to deal with bigger issues as adults. Our world certainly could use such skilled citizens.

  tags: Antifragile nytimes com #MustRead

• Where in the World Will You Go Next with PBL? | Edutopia

  PBL in the real world.

  tags: pbl real-world #MustRead

• To Give Your Employees Meaning, Start With Mission – Teresa Amabile and Steve Kramer – HBS Faculty – Harvard Business Review

  As I read this piece, I challenged myself to think of schools and students. How might school be more meaningful for student learners? Herein lies the key, doesn’t it?

  tags: meaning mission #MustRead

• 15 Must-Reads from 2012 | Blog | design mind

  tags: Frog design #MustRead

• Seth’s Blog: Ridiculous is the new remarkable

  If it’s not ridiculous, it’s hard to imagine it resonating with the people who will invest time and energy to spread the word. The magic irony is that the ridiculous plan is actually the most sensible…

  tags: seth #MustRead

• The False Promise of the Education Revolution – College, Reinvented – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  Really interesting piece about the disruption in higher ed. Makes point about creating “luxury” and “economy” classes of education, and some obstacles for MOOC revolution are examined.

  tags: mooc higher ed #MustRead brainfood

• My Symphony

  tags: symphony farnamstreet #MustRead

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• Business Should Focus on Sociality, Not Social “Media” – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review

  “Nothing you do matters until everything you do counts. That’s a tiny statement of personal existential responsibility: the obligation of those who choose to embrace their better selves fully, wholly, uncompromisingly. And the existential responsibility of business [schools], should you accept my tiny thesis, is nothing less than helping each and every one of us live it.”

  tags: Purpose #MustRead

• Six Social-Digital Trends for 2013 – David Armano – Harvard Business Review

  I believe these digital trends are important as we blueprint the future of education and schools.

  tags: trends social media digital #MustRead brainfood

• 26 Amazing Facts About Finland’s Unorthodox Education System – Business Insider

  tags: finland #MustRead brainfood

• Where We Stand | IDEA: Institute for Democratic Education in America

  tags: idea education schoolreform School Change #MustRead resources

• 5 Megatrends That Shaped 2012 Education – Vander Ark on Innovation – Education Week

  tags: innovation trends School Change #MustRead brainfood

• The Informal Instructional Core and Teaching the Village – EdTech Researcher – Education Week

  tags: instructional core learning #MustRead brainfood

• Preparing for life? SmartBlogs

  “We hold up the innovators as models. Innovators are our 21st-century heroes. We encourage out-of-the-box thinking while restricting our teachers to in-the-box teaching and assessing it with in-the-box tests. We want our students to be innovative but require them to be compliant with teaching methods of the past. Yet, we still claim to be preparing kids for life.”

  tags: School Change real-world #MustRead

• Three Examples of New Process Strategy – Brad Power – Harvard Business Review

  tags: process strategy #MustRead change innovation

• Start Building Your Growth Factory – Scott Anthony – Harvard Business Review

  tags: growth pedagogicalmasterplanning #MustRead innovation

• 11 Ideas for Fostering an Innovative Culture | Connected Principals

  tags: innovation culture Leadership school model #MustRead

• Assessment of Learning with a Competency-Based System: How to Start | Connected Principals

  tags: assessment #MustRead

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• Good vs. great teachers: how do you wish to be remembered? « Granted, but…

  tags: teaching wiggins characteristics #MustRead brainfood great

• What Do Students Think About Standardized Testing? A College Freshman Plans to Find Out | Education on GOOD

  tags: testing #MustRead

• Classes a la carte: States test a new school model | Reuters

  Call it the a la carte school.
  The model, now in practice or under consideration in states including Louisiana, Michigan, Arizona and Utah, allows students to build a custom curriculum by selecting from hundreds of classes offered by public institutions and private vendors.

  tags: #MustRead a-la-carte school model

• School Reform for Realists

  How, then, should businesspeople who are genuinely interested in school reform take on the challenge? Start by recognizing that you have a great deal to offer education — if you can draw on the most collaborative, generative aspects of business thinking and action, following the examples of companies that promote transparency, engagement, shared accountability, continuous improvement, and organizational learning.

  tags: talent_gap school_business_partnerships #MustRead

• Globalism goes backward – The Term Sheet: Fortune’s deals blog Term Sheet

  So…this is an interesting twist analysis of globalization – one of the major factors attributed with influencing and impacting education. How might this perspective rub up against MOOCs and other globalizing trends? How might schools actually go more local? How might we work on the interior of our networks? How might we strengthen the system?

  tags: global local globalization networks systems #MustRead

  • What we’re aiming for here is not retreat, but to reset our ideas for a new age. It points up the fact of an urgent need for change at the most difficult, insider place of them all: ourselves.

• Happy Vs Meaningful Life – Business Insider

  I wonder… if we reconstructed school, in such a way as to be more meaningful, would the two circles in the Venn – meaningfulness and happiness – move to more overlapping area?

  tags: happiness meaningful purpose #MustRead

• Jim Knight – If Steve Jobs Designed Schools – YouTube

  What if Steve Jobs had re-invented the education system rather the computer and consumer electronics industry? 

  Not the best talk, but the content contains great thought-provoking.

  tags: knight jobs designed schools #MustRead

• The Difference Between Risk and Uncertainty

  tags: Risk uncertainty #MustRead

• Accenture Awards KIPP – Knowledge Is Power Program – an Additional US $3.3 Million to Equip Young People with Career Readiness Skills | CSR News – Justmeans

  This is one example of the ways that Unboundary imagines corporations and education will connect and merge for Education 3.0.

  tags: accenture career skills car KIPP Corporate_Education #MustRead

• On Feedback: 13 practical examples per your requests « Granted, but…

  tags: feedback assessment formative assessment Wiggins PDS #MustRead

• When Trying Harder Doesn’t Work – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  But for higher education to accommodate our future needs requires leadership that will pay attention to issues of access, affordability, curriculum, and pedagogy—and that will require collaboration, risk taking, and care.

  tags: higher education #MustRead chronicle

• What is Hard Work? | Craig Lambert Blog

  tags: #MustRead hardwork

• Goodbye Computer. Hello RoomE. | Blog | design mind

  tags: design frog #mustRead learning environment brainfood

• Resources from #PSP2012 Now Available: Presentations from Leading Voices in Education | CurtisUES.info

  tags: resources video PSP2012 parent-school #MustRead #MustSee

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