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How One Teacher Changed for the Good of Her Students | MindShift
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https://hbr.org/2014/11/learning-is-the-most-celebrated-neglected-activity-in-the-workplace/
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Schools that work for kids | Eric Sheninger | TEDxBurnsvilleED – YouTube
HT @Kat_A_Jones
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The Three Dimensions of Student Achievement – Learning Deeply – Education Week
“When a student is finished with school and moves into adult life, she will be judged not by her ability to perform on a test of basic skills, but by the quality of her work and character. This holds true regardless of what career or life role she chooses. Quality work and character are the keys to a successful life. So why are they not the primary focus of schools?”
HT @MeghanCureton
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Learning to Enjoy Learning Again | The Creek Bed
“I don’t like homework because I think it takes away from all of the other things I could be doing with my life “
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Project-Based Learning Research Review | Edutopia
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13 Lessons for Design’s New Golden Age | WIRED
“We’re living amidst a new renaissance in design: Call it Silicon Modern—a moment made possible by cheap processors, new software, digital manufacturing, and novel approaches to problem solving. To ring in this era, WIRED collected 13 exemplars that encompass everything from big ideas to novel forms of expression.”
HT @TJEdwards62
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Breaking the Mold: School Fosters Design and Discovery | MindShift
HT @TJEdwards62
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those with control over education policy are making decisions on the old model of schooling — knowledge held by teachers who deliver information to students — while young learners are clamoring for something different.
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“Modern learning is more about discovery,” Richardson said. “It’s not so much waiting as doing.”
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Learners should be empowered to continue learning and to use their interests and passion to fuel projects that they care about.
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“In modern learning it’s all about producing and iterating, figuring out what’s working and not working, revising, trying again,”
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A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. – NYTimes.com
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people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture.
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if you have the “illness,” the real problem is that, to your brain, the world that you live in essentially feels not very interesting.
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having the profile of what we now call A.D.H.D. would have made you a Paleolithic success story.
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I think another social factor that, in part, may be driving the “epidemic” of A.D.H.D. has gone unnoticed: the increasingly stark contrast between the regimented and demanding school environment and the highly stimulating digital world, where young people spend their time outside school.
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But perhaps we can leverage the experience of adults who grew out of their symptoms to help these kids. First, we should do everything we can to help young people with A.D.H.D. select situations — whether schools now or professions later on — that are a better fit for their novelty-seeking behavior, just the way adults seem to self-select jobs in which they are more likely to succeed.
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Category Archives: 21st C Learning
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Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data? | Talk Video | TED.com
A truly thought-provoking, personal talk that challenges us to be more mindful with data, context for data, and the assessments that yield interpretable data.
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Student Choice Leads to Student Voice | Edutopia
Connected colleagues at SLA share case students of ways that they are integrating student choice and voice into their work as educational designers. HT @MeghanCureton
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The way I understood school learning shifted the first time I was given an opportunity to design a project of my own.
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For the first time in my life, school had not been about finding ways to meet requirements established by others — it was about work that I believed in.
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Learning that incorporates student choice provides a pathway for students to fully, genuinely invest themselves in quality work that matters. Participating in learning design allows students to make meaning of content on their own terms.
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School works when students have opportunities to produce quality work about issues that matter.
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Education works when people have opportunities to find and develop unaccessed or unknown voices and skills.
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Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater | Talk Video | TED.com
A magnificent “PBL!”
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Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think | Talk Video | TED.com
Reminds me of MVPS’s “Mistake of the Year” Award to promote risk taking and #failup iterative prototyping!
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How Companies Can Profit from a “Growth Mindset” – Harvard Business Review
What if schools were (even) more purposeful about building growth mindsets in learners young and old? Not only would it impact the immediate, but it might also impact future economic strength and community satisfaction in our country and beyond as those young learners become the business and civic leaders of tomorrow!
HT @NicoleNMartin
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Experiential Learning: Is there really a question about this? | User Generated Education
An intriguing complement to the #MustRead from @HollyChesser this week.
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To Which Word are You More Predisposed: Action or Understanding? | Shed Some Light
A beautiful post that poses a dichotomous question about our preference for “action” or “understanding,” perhaps in effort to inquire as to this recent push in schooling to make and do. For me, both are powerful tools in the toolbox, so to speak, and they are inseparably interwoven.
In another “input” for me this weekend, I heard a podcaster question the idea of “balance.” Instead she challenged us to think about integration. Perhaps action and understanding must be better integrated in the learning arc we call “school.” Maybe that’s what educators are responding to — a sense of disintegration (what some may call imbalance).
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Curiosity: It Helps Us Learn, But Why? : NPR Ed : NPR
HT @TreyBoden
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Students asking questions and then exploring the answers. That’s something any good teacher lives for. And at the heart of it all is curiosity.
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Blackwell, like many others teachers, understands that when kids are curious, they’re much more likely to stay engaged.
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brain’s chemistry changes when we become curious, helping us better learn and retain information.
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curious brains are better at learning not only about the subject at hand, but also other stuff — even incidental, boring information.
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“They feel especially good if they discover something, if they construct knowledge themselves.”
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“Curiosity really is one of the very intense and very basic impulses in humans. We should base education on this behavior.”
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What’s Next for PBL? | Edutopia
Another fabulous PBL piece from Suzie Boss. HT @TreyBoden
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We expect the phrase “deeper learning” will continue to gain traction to describe the multifaceted outcomes of project-based learning.
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His must-have list includes qualities such as “work worth doing,” providing students with authentic audiences, and using assessment practices that emphasize formative feedback.
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During project planning, it’s important to build in enough time for iterative cycles of review, feedback, and revision.
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These trends have the potential to disrupt traditional education; the role of the teacher has to change when students are directing more of their own learning. Yet the same trends should be complementary to PBL practices, which naturally connect with students’ interests and put teachers in the role of facilitator.
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How your culture can promote innovation | Paul Taylor
Great slide deck with strong stimulators. Plus, four points on culture and innovation.
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The culture of some organisations is superbly designed to repel anything new.
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Time to Debunk Those PBL Myths | Edutopia
Fabulous piece from Suzie Boss and superb links to PBL resources.
HT @MeghanCureton
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How Can Students Have More Say in School Decisions? | MindShift
Kudos to @Tara_SuperSub
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American Schools Are Training Kids for a World That Doesn’t Exist | WIRED
“Our kids learn within a system of education devised for a world that increasingly does not exist.”
HT @MeghanCureton & Greg Todd Jones (two colleagues in significantly different worlds who sent me the link at exactly the same time.)
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We “learn,” and after this we “do.” We go to school and then we go to work.
This approach does not map very well to personal and professional success in America today. Learning and doing have become inseparable in the face of conditions that invite us to discover.
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In such conditions the futures of law, medicine, philosophy, engineering, and agriculture – with just about every other field – are to be rediscovered.
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In this paragraph there are so many “project starters” that one could design an entire “curriculum” to weave them into an advanced problem solving component to school!
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Americans need to learn how to discover.
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Failing to create a new way of learning adapted to contemporary circumstances might be a national disaster.
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Against this arresting background, an exciting new kind of learning is taking place in America. Alternatively framed as maker classes, after-school innovation programs, and innovation prizes, these programs are frequently not framed as learning at all.
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Discovery has always provoked interest, but how one discovers may today interest us even more.
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in the course I teach, How to Create Things and Have Them Matter, students are asked to look, listen, and discover, using their own creative genius, while observing contemporary phenomena that matter today.
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Learning by an original and personal process of discovery is a trend on many US university campuses
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Success brings not just a good grade, or the financial reward of a prize. It brings the satisfaction that one can realize dreams, and thrive, in a world framed by major dramatic questions. And this fans the kind of passion that propels an innovator along a long creative career.
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Culture labs conduct or invite experiments in art and design to explore contemporary questions that seem hard or even impossible to address in more conventional science and engineering labs.
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The culture lab is the latest indication that learning is changing in America. It cannot happen too fast.
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we need to get smarter in ways that match the challenges we now face.
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Why Experts Reject Creativity – Atlantic Mobile
If you think of “teachers” as the “experts” in this piece, it provides an interesting reflection prompt about why we might struggle to innovate in school curricula, instructional methodology, etc. Are the schools most successful with innovating those schools with the highest concentration of “beginners minds”?
HT @MeghanCureton
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Brian Chesky of Airbnb, on Scratching the Itch to Create – NYTimes.com
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Will · “Completely Inadequate or Outright Mistaken”
As one can tell, I’m catching up on some Will Richardson reading. Great thought and action provokers!
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Emory freshmen determined to build a fast, portable Ebola test | Emory University | Atlanta, GA
Great story of school work blending with real-world needs. I get excited about assignments that have more application and relevance than just grade-book entry. Also, though, it is interesting to me that this was an “extra credit” assignment for some points on a bio quiz. What if more of these opportunities were the core of student work?!
HT @PamAmbler and @MeghanCureton
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The Shape of the Meaning Organization – Umair Haque – Harvard Business Review
HT @CraigLambert
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It’s well past time to begin imagining an organization of a radically different kind — one that takes a quantum leap beyond strategy, marketing, and finance into a novel galaxy of unexplored, untapped economic possibilities.
Here’s what I think that organization — call it the Meaning Organization — might look it. It’s a nod to — but a step beyond — Peter Senge’s learning organization. It’s built not just to learn (and then do “business”) but, more deeply, to redraw the boundaries of prosperity, by doing meaningful stuff that matters the most.
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First, its brain wouldn’t be the strategy group, but the wisdom group.
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And the wisdom group’s lifeblood wouldn’t be in the hands of a finance team — but in the hands of what you might call a significance team.
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companies are going to have to get lethally serious about having an enduring, meaningful, resonant, multiplying, positive, proliferating set of impacts — of all types, whether social, human, intellectual, spiritual, creative, or relational.
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In the Meaning Organization, the nerve center wouldn’t be marketing — but what you might call humanizing.
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