• how to be more productive—by doing less

  tags: work_life_balance innovation creativity #MustRead

• Why kids love Scratch: It lets them fail in a way their parents don’t – Quartz

  tags: coding failure failup problem solving #MustRead

• Authentic Challenges | Steve Mouldey

  tags: challenges inquiry school model #MustRead

• Design Is About Intent | Rampant Innovation

  HT @occam98

  tags: design innovation #mustread

  • And design is about intent.
  • Intent means purpose; something highly designed was crafted with intention in every creative decision.
  • Overarching intent is easy. The hard part is driving that conscious decision-making throughout every little choice in the creative process. Good designers have a clear sense of the overall purpose of their creation; great designers can say, “This is why we made that decision” about a thousand details.
  • Three Design Evasions
  • The first evasion: Preserving
  • The second evasion: Copying
  • The third evasion: Delegating

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• The Goal of Education Is Becoming – Education Week

  HT @nicolenmartin

  tags: purpose of education #mustread

  • The real goal of education, and of school, is becoming—becoming a “good” person and becoming a more capable person than when you started. Learning is nothing but a means of accomplishing that goal, and it is dangerous to confuse the ends with the means.

• A Philosophy of Walking: Thoreau, Nietzsche and Kant on Walking

  An interesting piece on walking as a way of slowly and deeply thinking – critically important to creative think and innovative progress on complex things.

  tags: walking creativity #MustRead

• challenge based learning

  Project and Learning Matrix structure at Newington CollegeHT @MeghanCureton
  Via @rolfek: 4wk integrated lrng project on Sustainability. http://t.co/KJ62Epsvoh CC (@KristynGatesA @EmilyBreite @HollyChesser @boadams1)

  tags: CBL PBL DBL TDed Synergy #MustRead

• The Overflowing Froth of Realness: Iowa BIG | ThinkThankThunk

  HT @occam98

  tags: real-world ActionEd Synergy #MustRead curriculum PBL iDiploma

  • The teaching and learning of the students overflows beyond any individual teacher so quickly, it’s almost amazing that we’ve intentionally left the community out of education for so long.
  • grades are supposed to be communicative over time, instead of summative of a time
  • symbiotic, intentionally-built relationship between education, business, nonprofit, government

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• What Does (and Doesn’t) Progressive Education Plus Technology Look Like? Thoughts on AltSchool

  tags: progressive personalization #MustRead

• 5 Ways Student Choice Impacts Learning – A.J. Juliani

  HT @ChipHouston1976

  tags: choice Synergy iDiploma PBL real-world empowerment #MustRead

• 10 Commandments of Innovative Teaching – A.J. Juliani

  HT @ChipHouston1976

  tags: innovation teaching #MustRead

• Seth’s Blog: Connecting dots (or collecting dots)

  tags: seth #MustRead

• Google Ventures: Your Design Team Needs A War Room. Here’s How To Set One Up | Co.Design | business + design

  HT @jbrettjacobsen

  tags: learning environment warroom maproom studio #MustRead

• What do College Professors Want from Incoming High School Graduates? | the becoming radical

  HT @HollyChesser

  tags: writing #MustRead

  • To offer a negative to the opening question, just as art professors at the college level do not want students who have done only paint-by-number, college professors who ask students to write do not want students who can write only canned essays and students who believe “never use ‘I’” or “don’t start sentences with ‘and.’”
  • As writers, then, students need ample experiences in high school with choice—choosing what texts they read and then choosing what types of writing they produce.
  • And here, I note, is the key quality college professors want from students in all aspects of academics (and life), including writing: Students who are purposeful, thoughtful, and autonomous. Too often the best students approach professors with “What do you want?” instead of having the background and confidence to make their own informed decisions.
  • To offer a negative to the opening question, just as art professors at the college level do not want students who have done only paint-by-number, college professors who ask students to write do not want students who can write only canned essays and students who believe “never use ‘I’” or “don’t start sentences with ‘and.’”
  • And here, I note, is the key quality college professors want from students in all aspects of academics (and life), including writing: Students who are purposeful, thoughtful, and autonomous. Too often the best students approach professors with “What do you want?” instead of having the background and confidence to make their own informed decisions.
  • As writers, then, students need ample experiences in high school with choice—choosing what texts they read and then choosing what types of writing they produce.
  • here are some experiences that high school students need before entering college as young writers
  • learning not to act like a student anymore, but to become a writer, and specifically, to become a scholar who writes.

• What is Humane Education? | Institute for Humane Education

  “What if we all had the passion and skills to solve the most pressing challenges of our time, and, through our daily choices, work, and acts of citizenship, made choices that do the most good and least harm for ourselves, other people, animals, and the earth?”

  tags: humane_education solution_seeker Zoe_Weil Synergy PBL Solutionary #MustRead #MustWatch idiploma

• Watch Zoe Weil’s Talk | Institute for Humane Education

  HT @JennyNovoselsky

  tags: solution_seeker humane_education Zoe_Weil Synergy PBL Solutionary #MustRead #MustWatch solutionseeker

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