• Social Entrepreneurship: 7 Ways to Empower Student Changemakers | Edutopia

  tags: social entrepreneurship PBL iproject idiploma changemaker #MustRead #CohortRead

• d.school: the whiteboard | 5 Prototyping lessons from a BMX backflip

  Incredible prototyping case study with fabulous meta-lessons for making-to-learn! 

  tags: prototype #MustRead

• A Military Leader’s Approach to Dealing with Complexity

  tags: Leadership #MustRead

• Wearing Your Failures on Your Sleeve – NYTimes.com

  tags: Failure Failup startup #MustRead

  • FailCon, a one-day conference in San Francisco celebrating failure
  • a company called Fail Forward consults with companies looking to examine and learn from their failures
  • “Nobody wants to fail,” says Ashley Good, chief executive and founder of Fail Forward. “It’s awful. You will never hear me say to celebrate failure.” But, she added, “failing intelligently is an increasingly important skill.”

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• How One Teacher Changed for the Good of Her Students | MindShift

  tags: School Change #mustread curiosity

• https://hbr.org/2014/11/learning-is-the-most-celebrated-neglected-activity-in-the-workplace/

  tags: hbr learning #mustread

• Tupac — Yes, THAT Tupac — on Education. |

  tags: School Change #MustRead

• 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

  tags: idiploma schools school model School Change #MustRead

• 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

  tags: achievement learning education #MustRead

• 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 “

  tags: homework #MustRead learning

• Project-Based Learning Research Review | Edutopia

  tags: pbl project based learning project-based #MustRead

• Five Keys to Rigorous Project-Based Learning | Edutopia

  tags: pbl project based learning project-based #MustRead video

• 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

  tags: design #mustread

• Breaking the Mold: School Fosters Design and Discovery | MindShift

  HT @TJEdwards62

  tags: school model schooldesign designthinking makered knowmadic #MustRead

  • those with control over education policy are making decisions on the old model of schooling — knowledge held by teachers who deliver information to students — while young learners are clamoring for something different.
  • “Modern learning is more about discovery,” Richardson said. “It’s not so much waiting as doing.”
  • Learners should be empowered to continue learning and to use their interests and passion to fuel projects that they care about.
  • “In modern learning it’s all about producing and iterating, figuring out what’s working and not working, revising, trying again,”

• A Natural Fix for A.D.H.D. – NYTimes.com

  tags: adhd creativity nytimes com #MustRead

  • people with A.D.H.D. may not have a disease, so much as a set of behavioral traits that don’t match the expectations of our contemporary culture.
  • if you have the “illness,” the real problem is that, to your brain, the world that you live in essentially feels not very interesting.
  • having the profile of what we now call A.D.H.D. would have made you a Paleolithic success story.
  • I think another social factor that, in part, may be driving the “epidemic” of A.D.H.D. has gone unnoticed: the increasingly stark contrast between the regimented and demanding school environment and the highly stimulating digital world, where young people spend their time outside school.
  • But perhaps we can leverage the experience of adults who grew out of their symptoms to help these kids. First, we should do everything we can to help young people with A.D.H.D. select situations — whether schools now or professions later on — that are a better fit for their novelty-seeking behavior, just the way adults seem to self-select jobs in which they are more likely to succeed.

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