• The Case Against Standards-Based Grading – And How to Respond to It | Solution Tree Blog

  HT @eijunkie

  tags: grading assessment Standards-Based #MustRead solution tree School Change

• What’s it like to change grading and reporting practices that have been around for over 100 years? | Creative Tension

  tags: grading assessment learning #MustRead schoolreform School Change leadership

• School Makerspaces: Building the Buzz | Edutopia

  makerspace

  tags: Maker makerspace Edutopia #MustRead Agency resources

  • Students who have had all personal choice removed by traditional educational models can be passive and feel overwhelmed when faced with real-world problems or design challenges. Academic passivity is common in schools where students swallow content and regurgitate it on multiple-choice tests. Students simply want to know how to get the “A.” This type of learning does not stick.

• Designing the Future, One Napkin at a Time — Tomorrow in Progress at IDEO — Medium

  tags: Design school3.0 innovation #MustRead

• innovation means learning at work

  HT @Meghan Cureton

  tags: innovation learning communities of practice Networking connected #MustRead

  • Innovation is not so much about having ideas as it is about connecting and nurturing ideas.

• Innovation is a network activity

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: innovation Networking connected #MustRead

  • Innovation is not brilliant flashes of individual insight but collective learning through social networks. No networks, no learning.
  • Innovation is not brilliant flashes of individual insight but collective learning through social networks. No networks, no learning.
  • The focus of innovation has to be on we, not me.

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• Breadth and Depth: Can We Have It Both Ways? – Learning Deeply – Education Week

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: breadth depth curriculum #MustRead learning

• The 100-hour knack — The Whiteboard

  HT @MeghanCureton

  tags: skill learning practice GrowthMindset #MustRead curiosity

  • The 100-hour knack.
  • with a 100 hours of investment into a new skill or practice, you can hit a tipping point, where you start getting more out of the practice than what you put in.

  • I eventually realized I had a new ability available to me.
  • I had unwittingly reached a point where the effort became an asset.
  • it takes just 100 hours to get that knack, and then you’ve gained a forever-useful capability.
  • But the 100-hour knack leads to, perhaps, a more important corollary: an acknowledgement that you need to make the investment, without satisfactory benefit, to get to this point.

  • You will, in fact, put in more time, effort, and struggle in the beginning than the initial results would seem to justify. I don’t think there is any way around this; that’s called learning.
  • The primary need is to have a reason, a purpose, to keep working through those 100 hours even though it is hard and the results aren’t there.

• What is a Performance Task? | PerformanceTask.com

  HT @EdLeader21

  tags: performance task assessment #mustread

• Four Scenarios on the Future of Credentials

  tags: credentials badges microcredentialing #mustread dashboards

• D.I.Y. Education Before YouTube – NYTimes.com

  Interesting look at self-directed learning, with a bit of an historical perspective that points to “we used to learn on our own more.” A good inquiry prompt for explorations such as 1) in what ways is this perspective true or false, 2) what conditions have led to this change over time, 3) how might we structure time so that self-directed learning is more possible and probable, etc. 

  tags: self-directed learning diy #MustRead nytimes com

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