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The Evaluation: schooling at the end of teaching, unions, & care « Cooperative Catalyst
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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.”
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“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.”
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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.”
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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.
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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.”
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But despite all the hoopla over gadgets and new software, the future of education really hinges on the shifting roles of teacher and student. “
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“The old model of getting educated in four years and coasting for the next 40 years” is growing increasingly less relevant
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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
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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.
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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.”
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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.”
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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
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“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)
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Singapore’s 21st-Century Teaching Strategies (Education Everywhere Series) | Edutopia
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