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Personalised Learning at HPSS | Steve Mouldey
This is incredible work: HPSS Vision of Personalised Learning http://t.co/x8Vo8JnWXD via @GeoMouldey #fieldnotes cc @boadams1 @MeghanCuretonHT @steelemaleySee iteration 2 post, as well
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The One Room Schoolhouse Goes High Tech | MindShift
Important new pilot @altschool of differentiated learning? via @Kschwart http://t.co/S5nS0yLmAx @Design39Campus @boadams1HT @grantlichtman
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HPSS Modules Iteration 2 | Steve Mouldey
@steelemaley @boadams1 @MeghanCureton thanks! This covers the recent iterations made to how the modules are developed http://t.co/o02aOsycUh
@GeoMouldey
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Want A Better Library At School? These Eighth-Graders Designed Their Own | Co.Exist | ideas + impact
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All Work, No Play: Why High School Students Should Have Fun – Learning Deeply – Education Week
“What would happen if high school teachers treated these curiosities as assets? If they took seriously the idea that “playing around,” when designed as part of instruction, could help students to engage with academic content in a way that is both joyful and deep?”
HT @akytle
HMW use/treat adolescents’ curiosities as assets? Value of play in US @boadams1 connection to a recent blog post. http://t.co/dgwXWidrEQ-
Current school reform efforts tend to ignore these questions. They bank instead on a model of discrete skill-building that breaks academic tasks into their smallest components. This model helps teachers to hone in on specific standards with razor-like precision, but it does so in a way that leaves little room for open-endedness. It thus reifies a perspective that is closed to the possibilities offered by playful learning, especially when it comes to adolescents.
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unified by a commitment to giving students opportunities to engage in open-ended work. Such opportunities help them learn to tackle complex problems creatively and flexibly, and to engage deeply while doing so. The classrooms where this kind of learning is happening are joyful and rigorous places to teach and learn – and much more aligned with the real world than most.
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Seth’s Blog: Connecting dots (or collecting dots)
HT @jbrettjacobsen
#MVimpact Mount Vernon Presbyterian School’s Transdisciplinary Capstone Projects Expo
From a letter to parents from Tyler Thigpen, Head of Upper School at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School:
Dear Upper School Family,
When a representative from Dartmouth College was on our campus Monday, an Upper School student astutely asked, “Beyond test scores and GPA, what can set me apart as a candidate to your school?” The representative responded simply, “That you make an impact.”
Speaking on behalf of the Upper School faculty and staff, we could not be prouder of your students who have done just that – i.e., “made a dent” – over the course of this year. Led by mentors, Upper School students, via their Transdisciplinary Capstone Project work, have collaborated, empathized with others, failed fast to iterate, actively used knowledge, and ultimately engaged real world issues as compelling contexts for learning. Tomorrow’s EXPO is both a showcase and also celebration of the impact students have made. And you are invited to drop in anytime between 9:15 a.m.-10:45 a.m. to see and celebrate the wins.
To highlight just one such project, I invite you to visit Wedding Wells, an emerging nonprofit, led by seniors Shelby Garde, Addie Goins, and Judge Jones, and juniors Gareth Tremege and Hannah Zenas, that aims to link the love of selfless American couples bound to be wed with underprivileged men, women, and children in dire need of safe drinking water.
If you are unable to visit the EXPO in person, you can follow the action on twitter via the hash tag #MVimpact.
* With enormous gratitude and genuine awe for the @MVPSchool Project Managers (Kristyn Anderson, TJ Edwards, James Campbell, and Zach Strother), the #MVUpper Faculty extraordinaire, and, especially, the student innovators, collaborators, creative thinkers, communicators, solution seekers, and ethical decision makers. YOU MAKE A DIFFERENCE!
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Real-World Impact: Guest Post @TylerThigpen #MVPSchool #MVIFI #MVImpact, January 16, 2014
David Brooks: resume or eulogy? #TED 5min
Schooling for the head. Educating for the heart. Finding the balance of #BothAnd as we design schools for cognition and character.
#HumanCenteredProblemSolving
David Brooks: Should you live for your résumé … or your eulogy?
Within each of us are two selves, suggests David Brooks in this meditative short talk: the self who craves success, who builds a résumé, and the self who seeks connection, community, love — the values that make for a great eulogy. (Joseph Soloveitchik has called these selves “Adam I” and “Adam II.”) Brooks asks: Can we balance these two selves?
Mindset Book Study: Learning Resources from #MVPSchool
In March and April 2014, the faculty of the Lower School at Mount Vernon Presbyterian School engaged in three book-study cohorts exploring Dr. Carol Dweck’s Mindset: The New Psychology of Success…How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential.
The game plans for our learning together can be found on Scribd and Google Docs.
And to really engage in #DeeperLearning around Mindset, we developed Mindset Bingo, which can also be found on Scribd and Google Docs.
My Learning Journey at #SXSWedu 2014
For several weeks, I’ve been wanting to archive the learning sessions that I attended at #SXSWedu this year. Today, I finally got around to it.
My Learning Journey at SXSWedu 2014:
Monday, March 3, 2014
- Making the Most of SXSWedu, 3.3.14, 12:30 p.m.
- Liminal Learning: Challenge-Based, Design-Driven, 3.3.14, 1:00 p.m.
- In the Trenches with K-12 Design Thinking, 3.3.14, 1:30 p.m.
- Innovation Bootcamp for Educators, 3.3.14, 3:30 p.m.
- Grades Are Stupid. Let’s Talk About Assessment!, 3.3.14, 4:30 p.m.
- Dinner with @am_gallagher, @scitechyedu, @jennzia, @thelock85, @WickedDecent, @kamithor, @treyboden, @elizabeth_lytle, @lndeutch, +some
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
- Is School Enough? Meeting Students Where They Learn, 3.4.14, 9:00 a.m.
- 50 Shades of Adaptive Learning – An Honest Debate, 3.4.14, 10:30 a.m.
- Does Engagement Really Matter?, 3.4.14, 11:10 a.m.
- Probing Needs and Prototyping Solutions: DT4EdTech, 3.4.14, 11:30 a.m.
- Mount Vernon Plays to Connect, 3.4.14, 3:30 p.m.
IT’S ABOUT LEARNING: “Be Present: Mount Vernon Plays to Connect #SXSWedu Session & Creative Mornings Atlanta on #Childhood”
- Meet-Up with Dr. Reshan Richards, 3.4.14, 4:30 p.m.
- Mardi Gras Party Hosted by 4.0 Schools
- Dinner with @am_gallagher, @scitechyedu, @SAISNews, @lndeutch, @kamithor, @elizabeth_lytle
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
- Impromptu session on Zspace with Elizabeth Lytle, 3.5.14, 8:00 a.m.
- Self-Directed Learning: Every Student’s Right, 3.5.14, 9:00 a.m.
- The Virtual Human Right, 3.5.14, 10:30 a.m.
- Quick Meet-Up with Jack Andraka, 3.5.14, 11:30 a.m.
- Montessori Promotes Disruptive Innovation, 3.5.14, 12:00 p.m.
- Meet-Up with Ashoka Change Makers
STORIFY: “Wed., 3.5.14, Bo’s a.m. #SXSWedu #selfdirect #DisruptEdu”
- Reverse Engineering to Teach Design in High School, 3.5.14, 2:00 p.m.
- #AK12DC Mentors & Facilitators Conference Call, 3.5.14, 3:30 p.m.
- Meet-Up with Julie Wilson, Institute for the Future of Learning, 3.5.14, 5:00 p.m.
- Dinner with @scitechyedu, @jennzia, @WickedDecent, @treyboden, @lndeutch, @coachhkay, +some
- #dtk12chat live from #SXSWedu
Thursday, March 6, 2014
- Unleashing Kids’ Passion for Compassion, 3.6.14, 9:00 a.m. [10-15 min.]
- Enabling Stackable Credentials: The Future is Now, 3.6.14, 9:00 a.m.
STORIFY: “Tapping Crowd Wisdom RE: #Badges #MicroCredentialing”
- Student Startups: The Ultimate Educational Experience, 3.6.14, 10:30 a.m.
- [Leave to fly home to Atlanta]
STORIFY: “Reflecting on #SXSWedu 2014 via Tweets”
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Related: SAIS@SXSWedu

