Above and Beyond – Partnership for 21st C Skills and Peter Reynolds

Posted on February 2, 2013 by boadams1

From http://www.p21.org/tools-and-resources/abovebeyond4cs

In an increasingly complex, demanding and competitive 21st century, students need to learn more than the 3R’s they are tested on in school. It’s time to help them go “above & beyond”, by embracing the 4Cs –communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creativity.

To get the word out to about the “3Rs + 4Cs” approach, P21 and FableVision partnered to produce a short, animated film called Above & Beyond. Enjoy & share, so we can help ALL our students flourish in the 21st century.

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Posted on January 27, 2013 by boadams1

Why Advertising Agencies Must Disrupt Themselves | LinkedIn

How might this apply to schools and education:

“How can an existing company cope in this environment? Disrupt your own brand. That’s what Andy Grove did years ago by creating Intel’s own low-end disruptor: the Celeron chip (on the advice of Clay Christensen, by the way).

To take it one step further, Christensen believed that ultimately the only way a entrenched company can avoid being disrupted is to set up a small separate venture – located away from headquarters — that functions like a new company. This venture must not be held to the same income and profit expectations as the mother ship, but should be run like a start up. Importantly, the new venture cannot be a “division” of the established incumbent, operating under the corporate umbrella. It must have complete independence to implement its own structure and business model.”

tags: disruptive innovation #MustRead
The Space-Makers Part 1, #102 – Design Movement

““Space is the body language of your organization.” Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft, Co-Directors of the Environments Collaborative at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Design at Stanford University (d.school) join Design Movement to discuss their book, Make Space: How to set the stage for creative collaboration.”

tags: design learning environment #MustRead podcasts
PRINCIPALLY SPEAKING: Are we ready to do the hard stuff?

“The hard stuff, the essential stuff comes from whether we can develop empathy in our kids, so that they can work tirelessly to promote justice and fairness in our society.”

tags: real-world PBL #MustRead tootsieroll

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Posted on January 20, 2013 by boadams1

Duke alum founds ‘innovative’ local school | The Chronicle

“TLC will focus on learning that is both interdisciplinary and practical for daily use, Goldberg said.

“TLC is based on the principle that middle schoolers are capable of higher level thinking and civic awareness.”

tags: TLC school model #MustRead
Why Not Ask Teachers How They Would Improve Our Schools? | NationofChange

“At one point I mentioned that the governors had just had a meeting on education, and he nodded. I remarked that each had brought a business leader to the meeting. The governor nodded again. And then I asked, “Why didn’t you bring a teacher?””

tags: policy School Change teachers #MustRead
China’s Ambitious Goal for Boom in College Graduates – NYTimes.com

“China is making a $250 billion-a-year investment in what economists call human capital. Just as the United States helped build a white-collar middle class in the late 1940s and early 1950s by using the G.I. Bill to help educate millions of World War II veterans, the Chinese government is using large subsidies to educate tens of millions of young people as they move from farms to cities.

“Much depends on whether China’s authoritarian political system can create an educational system that encourages the world-class creativity and innovation that modern economies require, and that can help generate enough quality jobs.”

tags: china nytimes com college #MustRead
Ken Carbone On The Future Of Design | Fast Company

tags: design #MustRead
Slides from “Design Is Hacking How We Learn” | Blog | design mind

“I believe that anyone can adopt the range of skills that we regularly exercise, and learn about a variety of topics of value to them, without having to formally be or become a designer. This can happen not by redesigning how schools work, per se, but by looking at the design process as a form of skill development that can help people change their world. Within that process, there are simple tools we can teach others that help them to create more meaningful lives, independent of formal design work.”

tags: design frog learning #MustRead
Will · Deep Learning for Students

“When will students develop the skills to do this kind of work if not in school? It’s not just the reading and math skills; it’s also the planning, problem solving and working collaboratively. When do we believe students will develop the dispositions to persevere over time with a challenging project and hold themselves to high standards of quality? These skills and mindsets — collectively known as Deeper Learning — can only be built through long-term practice in classrooms where students work together on significant projects.”

tags: DeeperLearning #MustRead
Will · Utter Lack of Intellectual Bravery

tags: Ed transformation #MustRead
Will · Future of Learning(?)

tags: future #MustRead

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Posted on January 13, 2013 by boadams1

You’re Too Young | Craig Lambert Blog

tags: #MustRead #activeed
The Evaluation: schooling at the end of teaching, unions, & care « Cooperative Catalyst

tags: schooling #MustRead
The Next Age of Neuroscience – What’s Next – CNN.com Blogs

“Like the telescope, the SpikerBox is a simple tool, but it allows anyone to begin exploring and making their own predictions. In the few short years since starting on this venture, high school students have made suggestions and have contributed to developing new experiments that highlight new areas of the nervous system.”

tags: neuroscience cnn com #MustRead
How People Learn

“A lot of educational and cognitive research can be reduced to this basic principle: People learn by creating their own understanding. But that does not mean they must or even can do it without assistance. Effective teaching facilitates that creation by getting students engaged in thinking deeply about the subject at an appropriate level and then monitoring that thinking and guiding it to be more expert-like.”
[assumes classroom learning as given]

tags: learning #MustRead brainfood cognitive science
Does the “school cliff” matter more than the fiscal cliff? | Daniel Pink

“As this Gallup blog post explains: “[Our] research strongly suggests that the longer students stay in school, the less engaged they become.” Primary school kids begin their educations deeply engaged — but by the time they get to high school, more than half are checked out. And the problem is even worse for our most entrepreneurial students.”

tags: engagement PBL experiential brainfood #MustRead
The Failure of Progressive Educational Methods – The Daily Beast

Why in the world did I include this piece in the #MustRead Weekly Shares? Because it communicates the core of why many educators resist PBL – project-based learning. What’s described in this short piece is NOT PBL. What’s described may be projects, but I would not classify it as PBL. We need to come to more shared understanding of what PBL is, means, and does.

tags: PBL #MustRead
The future of the classroom – Fortune Tech

“But despite all the hoopla over gadgets and new software, the future of education really hinges on the shifting roles of teacher and student.”

tags: future classroom tech #MustRead brainfood
- But despite all the hoopla over gadgets and new software, the future of education really hinges on the shifting roles of teacher and student. “
- “The old model of getting educated in four years and coasting for the next 40 years” is growing increasingly less relevant
Accelerate! – Harvard Business Review

“The existing structures and processes that together form an organization’s operating system need an additional element to address the challenges produced by mounting complexity and rapid change. The solution is a second operating system, devoted to the design and implementation of strategy, that uses an agile, networklike structure and a very different set of processes. The new operating system continually assesses the business, the industry, and the organization, and reacts with greater agility, speed, and creativity than the existing one. It complements rather than overburdens the traditional hierarchy, thus freeing the latter to do what it’s optimized to do. It actually makes enterprises easier to run and accelerates strategic change. This is not an “either or” idea. It’s “both and.” I’m proposing two systems that operate in concert.” John Kotter

tags: strategy leadership change transformation #MustRead
Hillbrook iLab Gallery

Hillbrook iLab – Hillbrook School showing a way to work at the intersection of practice and research. How to take risks. How to play and experiment with flexible learning spaces to adapt the environment to the needs and creativity of the learners.

tags: classroom learningspaces learning environment #MustSee #MustRead
Education Week: Federal Effort Aims to Transform Learning Technologies

“One project financed through the program, being led by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, seeks to produce classroom breakthroughs through the creation of a “learning dashboard,” a system that uses a statistical and cognitive model to record and compute how well students have learned particular skills, and provide them and their teachers with instant feedback on what they’ve learned and what to do next.”

tags: learning technologies #MustRead pedagogicalmasterplanning dashboard
Will · Our New Value: Making Stuff With Kids

tags: Maker #MustRead
What Innovators Can Learn From Artists | Blog | design mind

“golden rule artists and innovators have in common: only if they allow ample space for new things to happen that could happen, will they happen.”

tags: artists innovation innovators frog #MustRead brainfood UnbouBrainFood
The Best and Worst of Times to Teach – EdTech Researcher – Education Week

“TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN: It’s the best and worst time to be a teacher, opines Justin Reich in Education Week in his 2012 signoff. His enthusiasm over technology’s ability to connect and share best practices and resources are dampened by the simultaneous desire on the part of policymakers to focus on high-stakes testing and a narrow (STEM-driven?) curriculum. “We face a moment where technology dramatically widens the scope of educational feasibility while policy dramatically narrows the scope of classroom possibility.”” from @EdSurge Wednesday Newsletter edition 099, 2 Jan 2013

tags: edtech #MustRead brainfood UnbouBrainFood technology teaching
How really relevant and practical are Open Educational Resources?: A case for a little humility about the potential | Contact North

“In summary, OERs as they are currently being promoted (the current ”push’ model), will be a passing fad with respect to mainstream university and college education, because the core assumptions on which initiatives such as edX are based are false. However, OERs in terms of resources freely available over the web will be a game-changer, but in a ‘pull’ rather than a ‘push’ model. The one exception to this will be in the area of continuing education for the masses, where there will be continuing demand for structured, prepackaged courses built around the edX model.” (HT @EdSurge)

tags: MOOC OER pull #MustRead brainfood UnbouBrainFood curating
Singapore’s 21st-Century Teaching Strategies (Education Everywhere Series) | Edutopia

tags: singapore strategies edutopia technology #MustSee #MustRead