• What Do Parents Think About Online Gradebooks? – The Atlantic

  tags: grades online_grading assessment online_gradebooks #MustRead

• Homework is wrecking our kids: The research is clear, let’s ban elementary homework – Salon.com

  tags: homework #MustRead

  • If the assignment does not promote greater love of school and interest in learning, then it has no place in an elementary school-aged child’s day.

• The Power of Creative Cross Training: How Experimentation Creates Possibility – 99u

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: learning cross-training creativity associate #fsbl #observationjournal idiploma #mustread #mvifishares

• Empowering Teachers to Empower Young People — A New Game — Medium

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: self-empowered changemakers #MustRead ##mvifishares idiploma iDiplomaSeminar

  • Within the limits imposed by our genes, the extent to which we become self-empowered is determined to a very large extent by the experiences we have throughout childhood and adolescence.
  • If we want the new world to become our better world, then we need to give every young person access to coherent experiences — in and out of school. Experiences that are woven and scaffolded throughout their childhood and adolescence — and in which adults and young people are consciously helping each other become self-empowered.

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• The Next Big Thing in Design — IDEO Stories — Medium

  tags: IDEO designthinking #MustRead #MVIFIshares innovation

  • bringing human-centered design to education, government, healthcare — the sectors that need it most — requires a few important culture shifts:

    1. We need to bust out of siloed design practices.

    2. We need to develop ever-broader capacities, taking an interdisciplinary, deeply collaborative approach.

  • We turn our own questions on ourselves: What if we could help design education that readies today’s kids for the technologically enhanced (and challenged) environment they’ll grow up into? While we’re at it, what if we could then start addressing the very policy that shapes those educational institutions? That kind of moonshot systems thinking requires both agility and scale — it requires networked organizations and creative collectives. It requires designers who never stand still.
  • when individuals with their own aspirations and talents come together to build upon each other’s work and drive toward a greater goal, we can gain traction on much bigger challenges — and find new ways forward.

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• IBM’s Got a Plan to Bring Design Thinking to Big Business | WIRED

  HT Kat Mattimoe

  tags: designthinking design_thinking #MustRead ##mvifishares innovation

  • “We wanted to shift that culture towards a focus on users’ outcomes,” Hill says.
  • IBM today published its very own set of design thinking guidelines—a selection of best design practices the company hopes other big businesses will look to as they seek to remain relevant and profitable in a rapidly evolving corporate landscape.
  • corporate trend in design thinking
  • even though design thinking champions nonlinear thought processes, big companies often find themselves mired in the methodology’s suggested phases (empathize, define, ideate, prototype, test). Ultimately this defeats the purpose, which is partly to build agility into the product-creation process.
  • The company’s version of design thinking centers around something it calls “the loop.” Visualized, the loop is an infinity symbol punctuated with four dots—the yellow dot representing the user, the green dots representing the various actions of “observe,” “reflect,” and “make.” Explained simply, the loop represents the entire product-creation process, beginning with user-centered research all the way through prototyping (“everything is a prototype!” says Hill), to building and launching a product.
  • loop becomes a loop when you realize that the iterative process is never actually done; perhaps the loop’s most important requirement is reflecting on what’s been created and constantly improving it.

• MIT Dean Takes Leave to Start New University Without Lectures or Classrooms – The Chronicle of Higher Education

  tags: higher education university PBL transdisciplinary #MustRead #mvifishares

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• A strategy for thriving in uncertainty – Bain Brief – Bain & Company

  HT Brett Jacobsen

  Very valuable read for thinking about one’s own company/school strategy, as well as frameworks for helping and consulting others. 

  tags: strategy uncertainty innovation #MustRead

• Next-generation Noncognitive Assessment is Needed Now | 21k12

  tags: assessment 21k12 jonathanemartin #MustRead

• A Taxonomy of Reflection: A Model for Critical Thinking

  HT Becky Tussey

  tags: reflection critical thinking Pappas #MustRead learning

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