Design for Social Impact…with @modatl

Posted on April 25, 2014 by boadams1

From MODA (@modatl) – Museum of Design Atlanta

Help Us Change the World by Design!
Make a Contribution to Our Next Exhibition

Based on the idea that design is a way of looking at the world with an eye for changing it, Design for Social Impact, will offer a look at how designers, engineers, students, professors, architects, and social entrepreneurs are using design to solve the problems of the 21st century.

The exhibition will feature projects that address a variety of challenges in the areas of shelter, community, education, healthcare, energy and food & water. Each category will highlight solutions taking place locally, as well as ways in which these challenges are being addressed around the world.

Among the local projects highlighted in Design for Social Impact are those of:

Mad Housers, Inc.; an Atlanta-based organization that provides shelter for homeless individuals and families.
Plywood People, whose Billboard Bags project provides job training, English classes and income for refugees in the Atlanta area
Dr. Nicholas Giovinco, who, in conjunction with Freeside Atlanta has developed ways to use 3D printing to prep for surgery and improve outcomes

We’re raising funds for this exhibition through a crowdfunding site called Uruut! You can help bring Design for Social Impact into being (and get some good perks too!) by making a gift of any size.

Demonstrate your belief that design can change the world by supporting this exhibition. Click here for more information!

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Posted on April 20, 2014 by boadams1

Personalised Learning at HPSS | Steve Mouldey

This is incredible work: HPSS Vision of Personalised Learning http://t.co/x8Vo8JnWXD via @GeoMouldey #fieldnotes cc @boadams1 @MeghanCuretonHT @steelemaleySee iteration 2 post, as well

tags: fieldnotes school model PBL passion schedule curriculum #MustRead Synergy
The One Room Schoolhouse Goes High Tech | MindShift

Important new pilot @altschool of differentiated learning? via @Kschwart http://t.co/S5nS0yLmAx @Design39Campus @boadams1HT @grantlichtman

tags: iDiploma PBL dashboard playlist school model curiosity #MustRead
HPSS Modules Iteration 2 | Steve Mouldey

@steelemaley @boadams1 @MeghanCureton thanks! This covers the recent iterations made to how the modules are developed http://t.co/o02aOsycUh

@GeoMouldey

tags: school model curriculum #MustRead
Formative Assessment: Points to Consider for Policy Makers, Teachers, and Researchers | Preschool Matters… Today!

tags: formative assessment preschool earlychildhood formative assessment formativeassessment #MustRead
Want A Better Library At School? These Eighth-Graders Designed Their Own | Co.Exist | ideas + impact

tags: library designthinking examples #MustRead real-world
All Work, No Play: Why High School Students Should Have Fun – Learning Deeply – Education Week

“What would happen if high school teachers treated these curiosities as assets? If they took seriously the idea that “playing around,” when designed as part of instruction, could help students to engage with academic content in a way that is both joyful and deep?”

HT @akytle
HMW use/treat adolescents’ curiosities as assets? Value of play in US @boadams1 connection to a recent blog post. http://t.co/dgwXWidrEQ

tags: play high school HaveFun learning #MustRead engagement
- Current school reform efforts tend to ignore these questions. They bank instead on a model of discrete skill-building that breaks academic tasks into their smallest components. This model helps teachers to hone in on specific standards with razor-like precision, but it does so in a way that leaves little room for open-endedness. It thus reifies a perspective that is closed to the possibilities offered by playful learning, especially when it comes to adolescents.
- unified by a commitment to giving students opportunities to engage in open-ended work. Such opportunities help them learn to tackle complex problems creatively and flexibly, and to engage deeply while doing so. The classrooms where this kind of learning is happening are joyful and rigorous places to teach and learn – and much more aligned with the real world than most.
Seth’s Blog: Connecting dots (or collecting dots)

HT @jbrettjacobsen

tags: pedagography Strategy strategic planning #MustRead

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Posted on April 13, 2014 by boadams1

Charting the PD Waters With Badges | EdSurge News

HT @TreyBoden
Badging + PD http://t.co/Eya4TjdIbZ cc: @boadams1

tags: badges microcredentialing #MustRead
Why It's Important To Take Risks While Learning – Edudemic

HT Sarah Stewart
Why it’s imp. to take risks while learning from @Edudemic http://t.co/CL9dBFqe6k #learning @boadams1 @spinedu

tags: learning Risk learningbydoing #MustRead
The Productive Way to Develop Ideas – Explore Create Repeat – by 4ormat

tags: brainstorming ideation designthinking creativity #MustRead ideas
- The more often you take on unique problem-solving challenges, the stronger your ability to think creatively becomes.
- Instead of looking at how an idea fails to achieve its objective, try to use your colleague’s intent to guide another potential solution. Collaboration is easy when you focus on the areas where you agree.
Micro-Credentials: Empowering Lifelong Learners | Edutopia

HT @MeghanCureton
Via @edutopia Micro-Credentials and the importance of empowering non-traditional learning @boadams1 http://t.co/s0KRtgvo0n #iDiploma

tags: iDiploma badges badging microcredentialing #MustRead
Getting Our Students to Own Their Educational Experience

“If our interest and motivation are piqued when we work on tasks that interest us, that directly involve us, that have outcomes based on our abilities, and that succeed or fail based on our level of understanding, effort, and involvement, then why not apply this same logic to student learning in our classrooms?”
(HT @nicolenmartin)

tags: #MustRead PBL real-world
New Pedagogies for Deep Learning

tags: pedagogy #MustRead
Teacher Prep Led by (Drum Roll, Please)…Teachers – Teaching for Triumph: Reflections of a 21st-Century ELL Teacher – Education Week Teacher

tags: teacher prep MVIFI R&D #mustread teacher education
- There’s a benefit in completing a dissertation, immersing yourself in research, and writing articles for peer-reviewed journals. But there’s also benefit in working daily with students, translating theory into instruction, and choosing teaching as a career.

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Moonshot teaching: “real-life problems that require hands-on solutions”

Posted on April 10, 2014 by boadams1

“Getting Our Students to Own Their Educational Experience”
Raymond W. Cirmo
Independent School Magazine
Winter 2014
(HT @nicolenmartin)

If our interest and motivation are piqued when we work on tasks that interest us, that directly involve us, that have outcomes based on our abilities, and that succeed or fail based on our level of understanding, effort, and involvement, then why not apply this same logic to student learning in our classrooms?

To do this, we first need to realize that the students are not in our classroom, we are in their classroom. And the room is not set up for us to teach; it is here for us to be facilitators in the students’ learning. We are here for the students, not the other way around. This means that we need to educate them in a fashion that makes sense to them and the world they live in. And the best approach I have found is to assign them tasks involving real-life problems that require hands-on solutions — in other words, learning by creating and doing.