• The No. 1 Predictor Of Career Success According To Network Science — Life Learning — Medium

  tags: Networking networks #MustRead curiosity learning success

• 7 Questions to End Your Week With

  What if this were regular “homework” and we significantly reduced the traditional types of school homework? How might learning be enhanced in the short and long runs?

  tags: reflection Questions inquiry learning homework #MustRead

• Simple Rules: An Important Step in School Transformation? | The Future of K-12 Education

  tags: simple rules transformation School Change #MustRead

• Micro-Credentialing for Teachers: Bite sized professional development opportunities! | Blackbaud K-12 Private Schools

  HT @ChipHouston1976

  tags: Badges microcredentialing professional development assessment dashboards #MustRead

  • often credentials are earned mostly by the demonstration of proficiency, not completion.

• Why I Got Rid of My Teacher’s Desk — The Synapse — Medium

  A nice thought and action provoker.

  tags: learning environment School Change #MustRead

• Preflight

  Like consultivations in Mount Vernon Innovation Diploma!

  tags: consultivation real-world design thinking preflight #MustRead innovation

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• Gold Standard PBL: Essential Project Design Elements | Blog | Project Based Learning | BIE

  tags: PBL project based learning goldstandardPBL BIE #MustRead

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• Design Thinking: A Unified Framework For Innovation

  tags: design thinking innovation #MustRead #CohortRead

• “Design Thinking” in Harvard Business Review at IDEO | IDEO

  tags: design thinking #MustRead #CohortRead

• The Marriage of Formal & Informal Learning

  tags: assessment Badges microcredentialing LRS #MustRead Learning learning analytics dashboards

  • important
     that integration of formal and informal learning have champions
  • Web 2.0 technology is a key enabler for this marriage
  • Technological tools and leadership support alone will not be enough to make the marriage of informal and formal learning work. The shared values, beliefs, mental models, habits, and behaviors of the workforce in an organization – its culture is key.
  • How do people feel about knowledge – is it power to be hoarded, or a gift to be shared?
  • The two key advantages of informal learning are that it happens at the point of need
     and what is learned is usually applied right away.
  • In the cooperative model, the learning and development group can shift from being the producer of content to being the guide, initiator, facilitator, and coach.
  • Based on alignment with agreed upon organizational and learning goals, the learner takes responsibility for his or her own learning – with the support and guidance of the organization.
  • People who are not used to working in a learning organization culture, where cooperative learning within communities of practice is the norm, need the knowhow and a new mindset regarding learning to cooperatively in the workplace.
  • The positive is that this incidental learning doesn’t take people away from the work. The disadvantage is that when they are so caught up in doing, people often miss an important ingredient for learning: reflection.
  • The combination of structured and incidental learning can give us intentional learning.
  • David Kolb, wrote about a model of experiential learning consisting of the following cycle: action, observation, reflection, concept formation, and back to action.
  • The key to solidifying this learning is reflection.
  • Morgan McCall and George Hollenbeck asked managers to stop once a week and answer just two simple questions, “What did you do last week?” and “What did you learn from it?” They found that this simple process of reflection enabled the managers learn from their experiences and to change the way they managed.
  • integration of formal and informal learning can create a virtuous cycle that leads not only to increased productivity but to the real innovation that is necessary for long term success in a dynamic marketplace.

• From the Department of Don’t Get Ready, Get Started | metacool

  tags: innovation biastowardaction #MustRead designthinking #CohortRead

• Ruminating on design principles for new ventures | metacool

  Principles for Innovation along right margin of blog are all links to posts about innovating. 

  tags: design principles innovation ventures #MustRead

• The Top Three Things I Learned from Teaching Design Students | open change

  tags: design design thinking norms #MustRead #CohortRead

• Inviting the Public Back to Public Education | ThinkThankThunk

  tags: real-world realworldlearning #iDiploma #synergy #MustRead

• Authenticity in assessment, (re-)defined and explained | Granted, and…

  tags: authenticassessment wiggins #MustRead idiploma

• How Are Universities Grooming the Next Great Innovators? | Innovation | Smithsonian

  By offering courses on innovation, colleges aren’t just adding another subject matter—they are fundamentally shifting how they approach the path that students can take in school and the way they confront questions and problems after graduation.

  tags: universities innovation higher ed college entrepreneurship designthinking #MustRead

  • There is a growing consensus that higher education, moving forward, should be a flexible experience that can be customized in both subject matter and structure to fit individual interests and learning styles.
  • More than 900 colleges and universities now afford students the opportunity to create their own majors, tailoring a field of study to fit their specific interests.
  • “Actually trying something is very different from learning about it in theory,”
  • Companies recruiting across industries specifically seek out students who have taken design-thinking courses.

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• The Case Against Standards-Based Grading – And How to Respond to It | Solution Tree Blog

  HT @eijunkie

  tags: grading assessment Standards-Based #MustRead solution tree School Change

• What’s it like to change grading and reporting practices that have been around for over 100 years? | Creative Tension

  tags: grading assessment learning #MustRead schoolreform School Change leadership

• School Makerspaces: Building the Buzz | Edutopia

  makerspace

  tags: Maker makerspace Edutopia #MustRead Agency resources

  • Students who have had all personal choice removed by traditional educational models can be passive and feel overwhelmed when faced with real-world problems or design challenges. Academic passivity is common in schools where students swallow content and regurgitate it on multiple-choice tests. Students simply want to know how to get the “A.” This type of learning does not stick.

• Designing the Future, One Napkin at a Time — Tomorrow in Progress at IDEO — Medium

  tags: Design school3.0 innovation #MustRead

• innovation means learning at work

  HT @Meghan Cureton

  tags: innovation learning communities of practice Networking connected #MustRead

  • Innovation is not so much about having ideas as it is about connecting and nurturing ideas.

• Innovation is a network activity

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: innovation Networking connected #MustRead

  • Innovation is not brilliant flashes of individual insight but collective learning through social networks. No networks, no learning.
  • Innovation is not brilliant flashes of individual insight but collective learning through social networks. No networks, no learning.
  • The focus of innovation has to be on we, not me.

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• Breadth and Depth: Can We Have It Both Ways? – Learning Deeply – Education Week

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: breadth depth curriculum #MustRead learning

• The 100-hour knack — The Whiteboard

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: skill learning practice GrowthMindset #MustRead curiosity

  • The 100-hour knack.
  • with a 100 hours of investment into a new skill or practice, you can hit a tipping point, where you start getting more out of the practice than what you put in.

  • I eventually realized I had a new ability available to me.
  • I had unwittingly reached a point where the effort became an asset.
  • it takes just 100 hours to get that knack, and then you’ve gained a forever-useful capability.
  • But the 100-hour knack leads to, perhaps, a more important corollary: an acknowledgement that you need to make the investment, without satisfactory benefit, to get to this point.

  • You will, in fact, put in more time, effort, and struggle in the beginning than the initial results would seem to justify. I don’t think there is any way around this; that’s called learning.
  • The primary need is to have a reason, a purpose, to keep working through those 100 hours even though it is hard and the results aren’t there.

• What is a Performance Task? | PerformanceTask.com

  HT @EdLeader21

  tags: performance task assessment #mustread

• Four Scenarios on the Future of Credentials

  tags: credentials badges microcredentialing #mustread dashboards

• D.I.Y. Education Before YouTube – NYTimes.com

  Interesting look at self-directed learning, with a bit of an historical perspective that points to “we used to learn on our own more.” A good inquiry prompt for explorations such as 1) in what ways is this perspective true or false, 2) what conditions have led to this change over time, 3) how might we structure time so that self-directed learning is more possible and probable, etc. 

  tags: self-directed learning diy #MustRead nytimes com

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