Kare Anderson: Be an opportunity maker.
So here’s what I’m calling for you to do. Remember the three traits of opportunity-makers.Opportunity-makers keep honing their top strength and they become pattern seekers. They get involved in different worlds than their worlds so they’re trusted and they can see those patterns,and they communicate to connect around sweet spots of shared interest.
Translating forces into forms, Alejandro Aravena shares three incredible case studies in design thinking. The forces include the voices of the users. The forms are the solutions that were collectively created by community and architect, working together through design.
Alejandro Aravena: I don’t know if you were able to read the subtitles, but you can tell from the body language that participatory design is not a hippie, romantic, let’s-all-drink-together-about- the-future-of-the-city kind of thing. It is actually — (Applause) It is actually not even with the families trying to find the right answer. It is mainly trying to identify with precision what is the right question. There is nothing worse than answering well the wrong question.
Identifying the right question — that is the value added of design thinking…”participatory design,” as Aravena calls it.
There are three great portraits of innovation in Alejandro Aravena’s “My architectural philosophy? Bring the community into the process.” And the lessons apply to so much more than just architecture? How are you bringing your community into your process?
How One Teacher Changed for the Good of Her Students | MindShift
https://hbr.org/2014/11/learning-is-the-most-celebrated-neglected-activity-in-the-workplace/
Schools that work for kids | Eric Sheninger | TEDxBurnsvilleED – YouTube
HT @Kat_A_Jones
“We work for kids.” Great talk via @E_Sheninger https://t.co/SJDMQ350d9 Thanks @Kat_A_Jones for sharing with #idiploma @MViDiploma
The Three Dimensions of Student Achievement – Learning Deeply – Education Week
“When a student is finished with school and moves into adult life, she will be judged not by her ability to perform on a test of basic skills, but by the quality of her work and character. This holds true regardless of what career or life role she chooses. Quality work and character are the keys to a successful life. So why are they not the primary focus of schools?”
HT @MeghanCureton
Learning to Enjoy Learning Again | The Creek Bed
“I don’t like homework because I think it takes away from all of the other things I could be doing with my life “
Project-Based Learning Research Review | Edutopia
13 Lessons for Design’s New Golden Age | WIRED
“We’re living amidst a new renaissance in design: Call it Silicon Modern—a moment made possible by cheap processors, new software, digital manufacturing, and novel approaches to problem solving. To ring in this era, WIRED collected 13 exemplars that encompass everything from big ideas to novel forms of expression.”
HT @TJEdwards62
Breaking the Mold: School Fosters Design and Discovery | MindShift
HT @TJEdwards62
A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. – NYTimes.com
“No longer should we have school and real life as separate entities.” So concludes Eric Sheninger’s TEDxBurnsvilleED talk: “Schools that work for kids.” Thanks to @Kat_A_Jones, a sophomore member of the Innovation Diploma Disney Cohort for sharing this talk with our team.
For whom is school really designed?
Susan Etlinger: What do we do with all this big data? | Talk Video | TED.com
A truly thought-provoking, personal talk that challenges us to be more mindful with data, context for data, and the assessments that yield interpretable data.
Student Choice Leads to Student Voice | Edutopia
Connected colleagues at SLA share case students of ways that they are integrating student choice and voice into their work as educational designers. HT @MeghanCureton
Fabien Cousteau: What I learned from spending 31 days underwater | Talk Video | TED.com
A magnificent “PBL!”
Marc Abrahams: A science award that makes you laugh, then think | Talk Video | TED.com
Reminds me of MVPS’s “Mistake of the Year” Award to promote risk taking and #failup iterative prototyping!
How Companies Can Profit from a “Growth Mindset” – Harvard Business Review
What if schools were (even) more purposeful about building growth mindsets in learners young and old? Not only would it impact the immediate, but it might also impact future economic strength and community satisfaction in our country and beyond as those young learners become the business and civic leaders of tomorrow!
HT @NicoleNMartin
Experiential Learning: Is there really a question about this? | User Generated Education
An intriguing complement to the #MustRead from @HollyChesser this week.
To Which Word are You More Predisposed: Action or Understanding? | Shed Some Light
A beautiful post that poses a dichotomous question about our preference for “action” or “understanding,” perhaps in effort to inquire as to this recent push in schooling to make and do. For me, both are powerful tools in the toolbox, so to speak, and they are inseparably interwoven.
In another “input” for me this weekend, I heard a podcaster question the idea of “balance.” Instead she challenged us to think about integration. Perhaps action and understanding must be better integrated in the learning arc we call “school.” Maybe that’s what educators are responding to — a sense of disintegration (what some may call imbalance).
Curiosity: It Helps Us Learn, But Why? : NPR Ed : NPR
HT @TreyBoden
What’s Next for PBL? | Edutopia
Another fabulous PBL piece from Suzie Boss. HT @TreyBoden
How your culture can promote innovation | Paul Taylor
Great slide deck with strong stimulators. Plus, four points on culture and innovation.
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